Recently M. Mathieu [9] has proved that any associative ultraprime normed complex algebra is centrally closed. The aim of this note is to announce the general nonassociative extension of Mathieu's result obtained by the authors [2].

We show that a real Banach algebra A such that ||a²|| = ||a||² for a ∈ A is a subalgebra of the algebra $C_{ℍ}\left(X\right)$ of continuous quaternion-valued functions on a compact set X.

It is proved that a linear surjection $\Phi 𝒜\to ℬ$, which preserves noninvertibility between semisimple, unital, complex Banach algebras, is automatically injective.

Necessary and sufficient conditions are given for a (complete) commutative algebra that is regular in the sense of von Neumann to have a non-zero derivation. In particular, it is shown that there exist non-zero derivations on the algebra L(M) of all measurable operators affiliated with a commutative von Neumann algebra M, whose Boolean algebra of projections is not atomic. Such derivations are not continuous with respect to measure convergence. In the classical setting of the algebra S[0,1] of all...

In recent years much work has been done analyzing maps, not assumed to be linear, between uniform algebras that preserve the norm, spectrum, or subsets of the spectra of algebra elements, and it is shown that such maps must be linear and/or multiplicative. Letting A and B be uniform algebras on compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y, respectively, it is shown here that if λ ∈ ℂ / 0 and T: A → B is a surjective map, not assumed to be linear, satisfying $$∥T\left(f\right)T\left(g\right)+\lambda ∥=∥fg+\lambda ∥\forall f,g\in A,$$ then T is an ℝ-linear isometry and there exist an...

The normal cohomology functor $Ex{t}_{\aleph }$ is introduced from the category of all normal Hilbert modules over the ball algebra to the category of A(B)-modules. From the calculation of $Ex{t}_{\aleph }$-groups, we show that every normal C(∂B)-extension of a normal Hilbert module (viewed as a Hilbert module over A(B) is normal projective and normal injective. It follows that there is a natural isomorphism between Hom of normal Shilov modules and that of their quotient modules, which is a new lifting theorem of normal Shilov...

This is an expository paper on the importance and applications of GB*-algebras in the theory of unbounded operators, which is closely related to quantum field theory and quantum mechanics. After recalling the definition and the main examples of GB*-algebras we exhibit their most important properties. Then, through concrete examples we are led to a question concerning the structure of the completion of a given C*-algebra 𝓐₀[||·||₀], under a locally convex *-algebra topology τ, making the multiplication...

The aim of this paper is to characterize a class of subspectra for which the geometric spectral radius is the same and depends only upon a commuting $n$-tuple of elements of a complex Banach algebra. We prove also that all these subspectra have the same capacity.

Let $f$ be a continuous map of the closure $\overline{\mathrm{\Delta }}$ of the open unit disc $\mathrm{\Delta }$ of $\mathbb{C}$ into a unital associative Banach algebra $\mathcal{A}$, whose restriction to $\mathrm{\Delta }$ is holomorphic, and which satisfies the condition whereby $0\notin \sigma \left(f\left(z\right)\right)\subset \overline{\mathrm{\Delta }}$ for all $z\in \mathrm{\Delta }$ and $\sigma \left(f\left(z\right)\right)\subset \partial \mathrm{\Delta }$ whenever $z\in \partial \mathrm{\Delta }$ (where $\sigma \left(x\right)$ is the spectrum of any $x\in \mathcal{A}$). One of the basic results of the present paper is that $f$ is , that is to say, $\sigma \left(f\left(z\right)\right)$ is then a compact subset of $\partial \mathrm{\Delta }$ that does not depend on $z$ for all $z\in \overline{\mathrm{\Delta }}$. This fact will be applied to holomorphic self-maps of the open unit ball of some $J^{*}$-algebra...

In 1964, Bertram Yood posed the following problem: whether the intersection of all closed maximal regular left ideals of a topological ring coincides with the intersection of all closed maximal regular right ideals of this ring. It is proved that these two intersections coincide for advertive and simplicial topological rings and, using this result, it is shown that the topological left radical and the topological right radical for every advertive and simplicial topological algebra coincide.