We study Banach algebras that are quotients of uniform algebras and we show in particular that the class is stable by interpolation. We also show that ${\ell }^p$, $(1\le p\le \infty )$ are $Q$ algebras and that $A_n=ℨL^1(\mathbf{Z};1+|n{|}^{\alpha })$ is a $Q$-algebra if and only if $\alpha \>1/2$.

Let ${\varphi }_1,\cdots ,{\varphi }_n$ be real homogeneous functions in $C^{\infty }({ℝ}^n-\left\{0\right\})$ of degree $k\ge 2$, let $\varphi \left(x\right)=({\varphi }_1\left(x\right),\cdots ,{\varphi }_n\left(x\right))$ and let $\mu$ be the Borel measure on ${ℝ}^{2n}$ given by $$\mu \left(E\right)={\int }_{{ℝ}^n}{\chi }_E(x,\varphi \left(x\right)){\left|x\right|}^{\gamma -n}\mathrm{d}x$$ where $\mathrm{d}x$ denotes the Lebesgue measure on ${ℝ}^n$ and $\gamma >0$. Let $T_{\mu }$ be the convolution operator $T_{\mu }f\left(x\right)=(\mu *f)\left(x\right)$ and let $$E_{\mu }=\{(1/p,1/q)\parallel T_{\mu }{\parallel }_{p,q}<\infty ,1\le p,q\le \infty \}.$$ Assume that, for $x\ne 0$, the following two conditions hold: $det\left({\mathrm{d}}^2\varphi \left(x\right)h\right)$ vanishes only at $h=0$ and $det\left(\mathrm{d}\varphi \right(x\left)\right)\ne 0$. In this paper we show that if $\gamma >n(k+1)/3$ then $E_{\mu }$ is the empty set and if $\gamma \le n(k+1)/3$ then $E_{\mu }$ is the closed segment with endpoints $D=\left(1-\frac{\gamma }{n(k+1)},1-\frac{2\gamma }{n(k+1)}\right)$ and $D^{\text{'}}=\left(\frac{2\gamma }{n(1+k)},\frac{\gamma }{n(1+k)}\right)$. Also, we give some examples.

Let $E$ be a subset of a discrete abelian group whose compact dual is $G$. $E$ is exactly $p$-Sidon (respectively, exactly non-$p$-Sidon) when$(*)C_E(G{)}^{\wedge }\subset {\ell }^r$ holds if and only if $r\in [p,\infty ]$ (respectively, $r\in (p,\infty )$). $E$ is said to be exactly ${\Lambda }^{\beta }$ (respectively, exactly non-${\Lambda }^{\beta }$) if $E$ has the property${\displaystyle (**)\text{every}f\in L_E^2\left(G\right)\text{satisfies}{\int }_G\exp \left(\lambda \right|f{|}^{2/\alpha }\&lt;\infty ,\text{for}\text{all}\lambda \&gt;0,}$ if and only if $\alpha \in [\beta ,\infty )$ (respectively, $\alpha \in (\beta ,\infty )$). In this paper, for every $p\in [1,2)$ and $\beta \in [1,\infty )$, we display sets which are exactly $p$-Sidon, exactly non-$p$-Sidon, exactly ${\Lambda }^{\beta }$ and exactly non-${\Lambda }^{\beta }$.

For a locally convex *-algebra A equipped with a fixed continuous *-character ε (which is roughly speaking a generalized F*-algebra), we define a cohomological property, called property (FH), which is similar to character amenability. Let $C_c\left(G\right)$ be the space of continuous functions with compact support on a second countable locally compact group G equipped with the convolution *-algebra structure and a certain inductive topology. We show that $(C_c\left(G\right),{\epsilon }_G)$ has property (FH) if and only if G has property...

For a locally compact group G and p ∈ (1,∞), we define and study the Beurling-Figà-Talamanca-Herz algebras $A_p(G,\omega )$. For p = 2 and abelian G, these are precisely the Beurling algebras on the dual group Ĝ. For p = 2 and compact G, our approach subsumes an earlier one by H. H. Lee and E. Samei. The key to our approach is not to define Beurling algebras through weights, i.e., possibly unbounded continuous functions, but rather through their inverses, which are bounded continuous functions. We...

We show that the differential inequality $\left|\Delta u\right|\le v\left|u\right|$ has the unique continuation property relative to the Sobolev space $H_{loc}^{2,1}\left(\Omega \right)$, $\Omega \subset R^n$, $n\le 3$, if $v$ satisfies the condition $$(K_n^{\mathrm{loc}})\underset{r\to 0}{lim}\underset{x\in K}{sup}{\int }_{|x-y|\&lt;r}|x-y{|}^{2-n}v\left(y\right)dy=0$$ for all compact $K\subset \Omega$, where if $n=2$, we replace $|x-y{|}^{2-n}$ by $-log|x-y|$. This resolves a conjecture of B. Simon on unique continuation for Schrödinger operators, $H=-\Delta +v$, in the case $n\le 3$. The proof uses Carleman’s approach together with the following pointwise inequality valid for all $N=0,1,2,...$ and any $u\in H_c^{2,1}({\mathbf{R}}^3-\left\{0\right\}),$ $$\frac{\left|u\right(x\left)\right|}{|x{|}^N}\le C{\int }_{{\mathbf{R}}^3}|x-y{|}^{-1}\frac{\left|\Delta u\right(y\left)\right|}{|y{|}^N}dy\text{for}\text{a.e.}x\text{in}{\mathbf{R}}^3.$$

For 1 ≤ p,q ≤ ∞, we prove that the convolution operator generated by the Cantor-Lebesgue measure on the circle is a contraction whenever it is bounded from $L^p\left(\right)$ to $L^q\left(\right)$. We also give a condition on p which is necessary if this operator maps $L^p\left(\right)$ into L²().

Let $\tilde{f}$, $\tilde{g}$ be ultradistributions in ${𝒵}^{\text{'}}$ and let ${\tilde{f}}_n=\tilde{f}*{\delta }_n$ and ${\tilde{g}}_n=\tilde{g}*{\sigma }_n$ where $\left\{{\delta }_n\right\}$ is a sequence in $𝒵$ which converges to the Dirac-delta function $\delta$. Then the neutrix product $\tilde{f}\diamond \tilde{g}$ is defined on the space of ultradistributions ${𝒵}^{\text{'}}$ as the neutrix limit of the sequence $\left\{\frac{1}{2}({\tilde{f}}_n\tilde{g}+\tilde{f}{\tilde{g}}_n)\right\}$ provided the limit $\tilde{h}$ exist in the sense that $$\underset{n\to \infty }{\mathrm{N}\text{-}lim}\frac{1}{2}\langle {\tilde{f}}_n\tilde{g}+\tilde{f}{\tilde{g}}_n,\psi \rangle =\langle \tilde{h},\psi \rangle$$ for all $\psi$ in $𝒵$. We also prove that the neutrix convolution product $f♦*g$ exist in ${𝒟}^{\text{'}}$, if and only if the neutrix product $\tilde{f}\diamond \tilde{g}$ exist in ${𝒵}^{\text{'}}$ and the exchange formula $$F\left(f♦*g\right)=\tilde{f}\diamond \tilde{g}$$ is then satisfied.