Discontinuous homomorphisms from C(K)
Let G be a locally compact group. Its dual space, G*, is the set of all extreme points of the set of normalized continuous positive definite functions of G. In the early 1970s, Granirer and Rudin proved independently that if G is amenable as discrete, then G is discrete if and only if all the translation invariant means on are topologically invariant. In this paper, we define and study G*-translation operators on VN(G) via G* and investigate the problem of the existence of G*-translation invariant...
Examples of non-finitely generated function algebras on planar sets with small maximal ideal spaces are given.
It is shown that for each nonzero point x in the open unit disc D, there is a measure whose support is exactly ∂D ∪ {x} and that is also a weak*-exposed point in the set of representing measures for the origin on the disc algebra. This yields a negative answer to a question raised by John Ryff.