On discontinuity of the spectral radius in Banach algebras
A topological algebra A is said to be fundamental if there exists b > 1 such that for every sequence (xn) in A, (xn) is Cauchy whenever the sequence bn(xn − xn-1) tends to zero as n → ∞. Let A be a complex unital fundamental F-algebra with bounded elements such that A* separates the points on A. Then we prove that the spectrum σ(a) of every element a ∈ A is nonempty compact. Moreover, if A is a division algebra, then A is isomorphic to the complex numbers ℂ. This result is a generalization of...
We present several notions of joint spectral radius of mutually commuting elements of a locally convex algebra and prove that all of them yield the same value in case the algebra is pseudo-complete. This generalizes a result proved by the author in 1993 for elements of a Banach algebra.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 46H05, 46H20; Secondary 46M20.Every unital "combinatorially regular" commutative uniform complete locally m-convex algebra is local.
It is a survey talk concerning locally bounded algebras.
Let A be an algebra over the field of complex numbers with a (Hausdorff) topology given by a family Q = {qλ|λ ∈ Λ} of square preserving rλ-homogeneous seminorms (rλ ∈ (0, 1]). We shall show that (A, T(Q)) is a locally m-convex algebra. Furthermore we shall show that A is commutative.