Let A be a commutative unital Fréchet algebra, i.e. a completely metrizable topological algebra. Our main result states that all ideals in A are closed if and only if A is a noetherian algebra
A question of Warner and Whitley concerning a nonunital version of the Gleason-Kahane-Żelazko theorem is considered in the context of nonnormed topological algebras. Among other things it is shown that a closed hyperplane M of a commutative symmetric F*-algebra E with Lindelöf Gel'fand space is a maximal regular ideal iff each element of M belongs to some closed maximal regular ideal of E.
It is proved that for any , where is the Poulsen simplex, so that and , are smooth points, there is a rotation of carrying in .
The James-Schreier spaces, defined by amalgamating James' quasi-reflexive Banach spaces and Schreier space, can be equipped with a Banach-algebra structure. We answer some questions relating to their cohomology and ideal structure, and investigate the relations between them. In particular we show that the James-Schreier algebras are weakly amenable but not amenable, and relate these algebras to their multiplier algebras and biduals.
We construct an example as announced in the title. We also indicate all right, left and two-sided ideals in this example.
Let f be a function in the Douglas algebra A and let I be a finitely generated ideal in A. We give an estimate for the distance from f to I that allows us to generalize a result obtained by Bourgain for to arbitrary Douglas algebras.