On Banach algebras satisfying a spectral maximum principle
We show how the measure theory of regular compacted-Borel measures defined on the -ring of compacted-Borel subsets of a weighted locally compact group provides a compatible framework for defining the corresponding Beurling measure algebra , thus filling a gap in the literature.
We obtain characterizations of left character amenable Banach algebras in terms of the existence of left ϕ-approximate diagonals and left ϕ-virtual diagonals. We introduce the left character amenability constant and find this constant for some Banach algebras. For all locally compact groups G, we show that the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra B(G) is C-character amenable with C < 2 if and only if G is compact. We prove that if A is a character amenable, reflexive, commutative Banach algebra, then A...
Let be the left convolution operators on with support included in F and denote those which are norm limits of convolution by bounded measures in M(F). Conditions on F are given which insure that , and are as big as they can be, namely have as a quotient, where the ergodic space W contains, and at times is very big relative to . Other subspaces of are considered. These improve results of Cowling and Fournier, Price and Edwards, Lust-Piquard, and others.
For a non-precompact topological group G, we consider the space C(G) of bounded, continuous, scalar-valued functions on G with the supremum norm, together with the subspace LMC(G) of left multiplicatively continuous functions, the subspace LUC(G) of left norm continuous functions, and the subspace WAP(G) of weakly almost periodic functions. We establish that the quotient space LUC(G)/WAP(G) contains a linear isometric copy of , and that the quotient space C(G)/LMC(G) (and a fortiori C(G)/LUC(G))...
We prove that a semisimple, commutative Banach algebra has either exactly one uniform norm or infinitely many uniform norms; this answers a question asked by S. J. Bhatt and H. V. Dedania [Studia Math. 160 (2004)]. A similar result is proved for C*-norms on *-semisimple, commutative Banach *-algebras. These properties are preserved if the identity is adjoined. We also show that a commutative Beurling *-algebra L¹(G,ω) has exactly one uniform norm if and only if it has exactly one C*-norm; this is...