Idempotents in quotients and restrictions of Banach algebras of functions
Let be the Beurling algebra with weight on the unit circle and, for a closed set , let . We prove that, for , there exists a closed set of measure zero such that the quotient algebra is not generated by its idempotents, thus contrasting a result of Zouakia. Furthermore, for the Lipschitz algebras and the algebra of absolutely continuous functions on , we characterize the closed sets for which the restriction algebras and are generated by their idempotents.