Multiplicative functionals on algebras of differentiable functions.
Let Ω be an open subset of a real Banach space E and, for 1 ≤ m ≤, let Cm(Ω) denote the algebra of all m-times continuously Fréchet differentiable real functions defined on Ω. We are concerned here with the question as to wether every nonzero algebra homomorphism φ: Cm(Ω) → R is given by evaluation at some point of Ω, i.e., if there exists some a ∈ Ω such that φ(f) = f(a) for each f ∈ Cm(Ω). This problem has been considered in [1,4,5] and [6]. In [6], a positive answer is given in the case that...