We find representations for the automorphisms, derivations and multipliers of the Fréchet algebra $L{¹}_{loc}$ of locally integrable functions on the half-line ${ℝ}^{+}$. We show, among other things, that every automorphism θ of $L{¹}_{loc}$ is of the form $\theta ={\phi }_a{e}^{\lambda X}{e}^D$, where D is a derivation, X is the operator of multiplication by coordinate, λ is a complex number, a > 0, and ${\phi }_a$ is the dilation operator $\left({\phi }_{a}f\right)\left(x\right)=af\left(ax\right)$ ($f\in L{¹}_{loc}$, $x\in {ℝ}^{+}$). It is also shown that the automorphism group is a topological group with the topology of uniform convergence on bounded...

The notion of ball proximinality and the strong ball proximinality were recently introduced in [2]. We prove that a closed * subalgebra A of C(Q) is strongly ball proximinal in C(Q) and the metric projection from C(Q), onto the closed unit ball of A, is Hausdorff metric continuous and hence has continuous selection.

For infinite discrete additive semigroups $X\subset [0,\infty )$ we study normed algebras of arithmetic functions $g:X\to ℂ$ endowed with the linear operations and the convolution. In particular, we investigate the problem of scaling the mean deviation of related multiplicative functions for $X=log\mathbb{N}$. This involves an extension of Banach algebras of arithmetic functions by introducing weight functions and proving a weighted inversion theorem of Wiener type in the frame of Gelfand’s theory of commutative Banach algebras.

Semisimple commutative Banach algebras 𝓐 admitting exactly one uniform norm (not necessarily complete) are investigated. 𝓐 has this Unique Uniform Norm Property iff the completion U(𝓐) of 𝓐 in the spectral radius r(·) has UUNP and, for any non-zero spectral synthesis ideal ℐ of U(𝓐), ℐ ∩ 𝓐 is non-zero. 𝓐 is regular iff U(𝓐) is regular and, for any spectral synthesis ideal ℐ of 𝓐, 𝓐/ℐ has UUNP iff U(𝓐) is regular and for any spectral synthesis ideal ℐ of U(𝓐), ℐ = k(h(𝓐 ∩ ℐ)) (hulls...

We use the work of J. Bourgain to show that some uniform algebras of analytic functions have certain Banach space properties. If X is a Banach space, we say X is strongif X and X* have the Dunford-Pettis property, X has the Pełczyński property, and X* is weakly sequentially complete. Bourgain has shown that the ball-algebras and the polydisk-algebras are strong Banach spaces. Using Bourgain’s methods, Cima and Timoney have shown that if K is a compact planar set and A is R(K) or A(K), then A and...

Let 0 < p ≤ 1, let ω: ℤ → [1,∞) be a weight on ℤ and let f be a nowhere vanishing continuous function on the unit circle Γ whose Fourier series satisfies ${\sum }_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}{\left|f̂\left(n\right)\right|}^p\omega \left(n\right)<\infty$. Then there exists a weight ν on ℤ such that ${\sum }_{n\in \mathbb{Z}}{\left|\widehat{(1/f)}\left(n\right)\right|}^p\nu \left(n\right)<\infty$. Further, ν is non-constant if and only if ω is non-constant; and ν = ω if ω is non-quasianalytic. This includes the classical Wiener theorem (p = 1, ω = 1), Domar theorem (p = 1, ω is non-quasianalytic), Żelazko theorem (ω = 1) and a recent result of Bhatt and Dedania (p = 1). An analogue of...

Given a locally compact abelian group G with a measurable weight ω, it is shown that the Beurling algebra L¹(G,ω) admits either exactly one uniform norm or infinitely many uniform norms, and that L¹(G,ω) admits exactly one uniform norm iff it admits a minimum uniform norm.

For a locally compact group G and p ∈ (1,∞), we define and study the Beurling-Figà-Talamanca-Herz algebras $A_p(G,\omega )$. For p = 2 and abelian G, these are precisely the Beurling algebras on the dual group Ĝ. For p = 2 and compact G, our approach subsumes an earlier one by H. H. Lee and E. Samei. The key to our approach is not to define Beurling algebras through weights, i.e., possibly unbounded continuous functions, but rather through their inverses, which are bounded continuous functions. We prove that...

It has been shown that any Banach algebra satisfying ‖f 2‖ = ‖f‖2 has a representation as an algebra of quaternion-valued continuous functions. Whereas some of the classical theory of algebras of continuous complex-valued functions extends immediately to algebras of quaternion-valued functions, similar work has not been done to analyze how the theory of algebras of complex-valued Lipschitz functions extends to algebras of quaternion-valued Lipschitz functions. Denote by Lip(X, $𝔽$ ) the algebra over...

The theory of quasimultipliers in Banach algebras is developed in order to provide a mechanism for defining the boundary values of analytic semigroups on a sector in the complex plane. Then, some methods are presented for deriving lower estimates for operators defined in terms of quasinilpotent semigroups using techniques from the theory of complex analysis.