Newton interpolating series at distinct points with coefficients in a real Banach algebra.
Noncoherence of a causal Wiener algebra used in control theory.
Noncommutative function theory and unique extensions
We generalize, to the setting of Arveson’s maximal subdiagonal subalgebras of finite von Neumann algebras, the Szegő -distance estimate and classical theorems of F. and M. Riesz, Gleason and Whitney, and Kolmogorov. As a byproduct, this completes the noncommutative analog of the famous cycle of theorems characterizing the function algebraic generalizations of from the 1960’s. A sample of our other results: we prove a Kaplansky density result for a large class of these algebras, and give a necessary...
Nonlinear generalizations of the Banach-Stone theorem
Non-regularity for Banach function algebras
Let A be a unital Banach function algebra with character space . For , let and be the ideals of functions vanishing at x and in a neighbourhood of x, respectively. It is shown that the hull of is connected, and that if x does not belong to the Shilov boundary of A then the set has an infinite connected subset. Various related results are given.
Non-removable ideals in commutative Banach algebras
Non-removable ideals in commutative Banach algebras
Non-removable ideals in commutative topological algebras with separately continuous multiplication.
An ideal in a commutative topological algebra with separately continuous multiplication is non-removable if and only if it consists locally of joint topological divisors of zero. Also, any family of non-removable ideals can be removed simultanously.
Non-standard characterisations of ideals in C(X).
Non-uniqueness of topology for algebras of polynomials
Norm conditions for real-algebra isomorphisms between uniform algebras
Let A and B be uniform algebras. Suppose that α ≠ 0 and A 1 ⊂ A. Let ρ, τ: A 1 → A and S, T: A 1 → B be mappings. Suppose that ρ(A 1), τ(A 1) and S(A 1), T(A 1) are closed under multiplications and contain expA and expB, respectively. If ‖S(f)T(g) − α‖∞ = ‖ρ(f)τ(g) − α‖∞ for all f, g ∈ A 1, S(e 1)−1 ∈ S(A 1) and S(e 1) ∈ T(A 1) for some e 1 ∈ A 1 with ρ(e 1) = 1, then there exists a real-algebra isomorphism : A → B such that (ρ(f)) = S(e 1)−1 S(f) for every f ∈ A 1. We also give some applications...
Norm conditions for uniform algebra isomorphisms
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 then T is an ℝ-linear isometry and there exist an...
Normed algebras of differentiable functions on compact plane sets: completeness and semisimple completions
We continue the study of the completeness and completions of normed algebras of differentiable functions Dⁿ(K) (where K is a perfect, compact plane set), initiated by Bland, Dales and Feinstein [Studia Math. 170 (2005) and Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 41 (2010)]. We prove new characterizations of the completeness of D¹(K) and results concerning the semisimplicity of the completion of D¹(K). In particular, we prove that semi-rectifiability is necessary for the completion of D¹(K) to be semisimple in...
Normed "upper interval" algebras without nontrivial closed subalgebras
It is a long standing open problem whether there is any infinite-dimensional commutative Banach algebra without nontrivial closed ideals. This is in some sense the Banach algebraists' counterpart to the invariant subspace problem for Banach spaces. We do not here solve this famous problem, but solve a related problem, that of finding (necessarily commutative) infinite-dimensional normed algebras which do not even have nontrivial closed subalgebras. Our examples are incomplete normed algebras rather...
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