Spectral theory for facially homogenous symmetric self-dual cones.
Let A and B be two unitary Banach algebras. We study linear mappings from A into B which preserve the polynomially convex hull of the spectrum. In particular, we give conditions under which such surjective linear mappings are Jordan morphisms.
We show that any sequence of mutually orthogonal pure states on a JB algebra A such that forms an almost discrete sequence in the relative topology induced by the primitive ideal space of A admits a sequence consisting of positive, norm one, elements of A with pairwise orthogonal supports which is supporting for in the sense of for all n. Moreover, if A is separable then can be taken such that is uniquely determined by the biorthogonality condition . Consequences of this result improving...