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The Banach algebra of continuous bounded functions with separable support

M. R. Koushesh (2012)

Studia Mathematica

We prove a commutative Gelfand-Naimark type theorem, by showing that the set C s ( X ) of continuous bounded (real or complex valued) functions with separable support on a locally separable metrizable space X (provided with the supremum norm) is a Banach algebra, isometrically isomorphic to C₀(Y) for some unique (up to homeomorphism) locally compact Hausdorff space Y. The space Y, which we explicitly construct as a subspace of the Stone-Čech compactification of X, is countably compact, and if X is non-separable,...

The Complex Stone-Weierstrass Property

Kenneth Kunen (2004)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

The compact Hausdorff space X has the CSWP iff every subalgebra of C(X,ℂ) which separates points and contains the constant functions is dense in C(X,ℂ). Results of W. Rudin (1956) and Hoffman and Singer (1960) show that all scattered X have the CSWP and many non-scattered X fail the CSWP, but it was left open whether having the CSWP is just equivalent to being scattered. Here, we prove some general facts about the CSWP; in particular we show that if X is a compact ordered space,...

The general complex case of the Bernstein-Nachbin approximation problem

S. Machado, Joao Bosco Prolla (1978)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

We present a solution to the (strict) Bernstein-Nachbin approximation problem in the general complex case. As a corollary, we get proofs of the analytic, the quasi-analytic, and the bounded criteria for localizability in the general complex case. This generalizes the known results of the real or self-adjoint complex cases, in the same way that Bishop’s Theorem generalizes the Weierstrass-Stone Theorem. However, even in the real or self-adjoint complex cases, the results that we obtain are stronger...

The Gleason-Kahane-Zelazko theorem and function algebras

Edoardo Vesentini (2005)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

A theorem due to A. Gleason, J.-P. Kahane and W. Zelazko characterizes continuous characters within the space of all continuous linear forms of a locally multiplicatively convex, sequentially complete algebra. The present paper applies these results to investigate linear isometries of Banach algebras (with particular attention to normal uniform algebras) and of some locally multiplicatively convex algebras. The locally multiplicatively convex algebra of all holomorphic functions on a domain, will...

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