CONTENTSPRELIMINARIES§ 0. Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................................3§ 1. Definitions and notation.................................................................................................................................................5Chapter ILOCALLY BOUNDED ALGEBRAS§ 2. Basic facts and examples..............................................................................................................................................6§...
We construct a complete multiplicatively pseudoconvex algebra with the property announced in the title. This solves Problem 25 of [6].
We prove that any real or complex countably generated algebra has a complete locally convex topology making it a topological algebra. Assuming the continuum hypothesis, it is the best possible result expressed in terms of the cardinality of a set of generators. This result is a corollary to a theorem stating that a free algebra provided with the maximal locally convex topology is a topological algebra if and only if the number of variables is at most countable. As a byproduct we obtain an example...
We construct two examples of complete multiplicatively convex algebras with the property that all their maximal commutative subalgebras and consequently all commutative closed subalgebras are Banach algebras. One of them is non-metrizable and the other is metrizable and non-Banach. This solves Problems 12-16 and 22-24 of [7].
We construct a non-m-convex non-commutative -algebra on which all entire functions operate. Our example is also a Q-algebra and a radical algebra. It follows that some results true in the commutative case fail in general.
To Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski on his 70th birthday
Let X be a real or complex vector space equipped with the strongest vector space topology . Besides the result announced in the title we prove that X is uncountable-dimensional if and only if it is not locally pseudoconvex.
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