Some remarks about the three spaces problem in Banach algebras
This paper gives some very elementary proofs of results of Aupetit, Ransford and others on the variation of the spectral radius of a holomorphic family of elements in a Banach algebra. There is also some brief discussion of a notorious unsolved problem in automatic continuity theory.
We show that every continuous derivation of a countably dominated Fréchet GB*-algebra A is spatial whenever A is additionally an AO*-algebra.
Let A be a complex unital Banach algebra. We characterize elements belonging to Γ(A), the set of elements central modulo the radical. Our result extends and unifies several known characterizations of elements in Γ(A).
The notion of a stable inverse-limit sequence is introduced. It provides a sufficient (and, for sequences of abelian groups, necessary) condition for the preservation of exactness by the inverse-limit functor. Examples of stable sequences are provided through the abstract Mittag-Leffler theorem; the results are applied in the theory of Fréchet algebras.
Let be a completely regular Hausdorff space, the space of all scalar-valued bounded continuous functions on with strict topologies. We prove that these are locally convex topological algebras with jointly continuous multiplication. Also we find the necessary and sufficient conditions for these algebras to be locally -convex.