Nous donnons dans ce travail une caractérisation des algèbres (semi-simples) localement-convexes complètes faiblement topologisées au sens de S. Warner, ce qui clarifie, entre autres, plusiers résultats données sur certaines classes d'algèbres à base étudiées par de nombreux auteurs ([2], [6], [7]) pour approcher le problème de E. A. Michael sur la continuité des caractères dans les algèbres de Fréchet [9].
We characterize unital topological algebras in which all maximal two-sided ideals are closed.
Let L₀(Ω;A) be the Fréchet space of Bochner-measurable random variables with values in a unital complex Banach algebra A. We study L₀(Ω;A) as a topological algebra, investigating the notion of spectrum in L₀(Ω;A), the Jacobson radical, ideals, hulls and kernels. Several results on automatic continuity of homomorphisms are developed, including versions of well-known theorems of C. Rickart and B. E. Johnson.
It is shown that every commutative sequentially bornologically complete Hausdorff algebra A with bounded elements is representable in the form of an (algebraic) inductive limit of an inductive system of locally bounded Fréchet algebras with continuous monomorphisms if the von Neumann bornology of A is pseudoconvex. Several classes of topological algebras A for which or for each a ∈ A are described.
Properties of topologically invertible elements and the topological spectrum of elements in unital semitopological algebras are studied. It is shown that the inversion is continuous in every invertive Fréchet algebra, and singly generated unital semitopological algebras have continuous characters if and only if the topological spectrum of the generator is non-empty. Several open problems are presented.
By definition a totally convex algebra is a totally convex space equipped with an associative multiplication, i.eȧ morphism of totally convex spaces. In this paper we introduce, for such algebras, the notions of ideal, tensor product, unitization, inverses, weak inverses, quasi-inverses, weak quasi-inverses and the spectrum of an element and investigate them in detail. This leads to a considerable generalization of the corresponding notions and results in the theory of Banach spaces.
We show that the trace and the determinant on a semisimple Banach algebra can be defined in a purely spectral and analytic way and then we obtain many consequences from these new definitions.