A linear mapping T from a subspace E of a Banach algebra into another Banach algebra is defined to be spectrally bounded if there is a constant M ≥ 0 such that r(Tx) ≤ Mr(x) for all x ∈ E, where r(·) denotes the spectral radius. We study some basic properties of this class of operators, which are sometimes analogous to, sometimes very different from, those of bounded operators between Banach spaces.

In this paper we prove some fixed point theorems of the Banach and Krasnosel’skii type for mappings on the $m$-tuple Cartesian product of a Banach algebra $X$ over $ℝ$. Using these theorems existence results for a system of integral equations of the Gripenberg’s type are proved. A sufficient condition for the nonexistence of blowing-up solutions of this system of integral equations is also proved.

We characterize bijections on matrix spaces (operator algebras) preserving full rank (invertibility) of differences of matrix (operator) pairs in both directions.

Let (X, d X) and (Y,d Y) be pointed compact metric spaces with distinguished base points e X and e Y. The Banach algebra of all $𝕂$-valued Lipschitz functions on X - where $𝕂$ is either‒or ℝ - that map the base point e X to 0 is denoted by Lip0(X). The peripheral range of a function f ∈ Lip0(X) is the set Ranµ(f) = f(x): |f(x)| = ‖f‖∞ of range values of maximum modulus. We prove that if T 1, T 2: Lip0(X) → Lip0(Y) and S 1, S 2: Lip0(X) → Lip0(X) are surjective mappings such that $Ra{n}_{\pi }\left(T_1\left(f\right)T_2\left(g\right)\right)\cap Ra{n}_{\pi }\left(S_1\left(f\right)S_2\left(g\right)\right)\ne \varnothing$ for all f, g ∈ Lip0(X),...

We characterize a class of *-homomorphisms on Lip⁎(X,𝓑(𝓗 )), a non-commutative Banach *-algebra of Lipschitz functions on a compact metric space and with values in 𝓑(𝓗 ). We show that the zero map is the only multiplicative *-preserving linear functional on Lip⁎(X,𝓑(𝓗 )). We also establish the algebraic reflexivity property of a class of *-isomorphisms on Lip⁎(X,𝓑(𝓗 )).

We study discontinuous invertibility preserving linear mappings from a Banach algebra into the algebra of n × n matrices and give an explicit representation of such a mapping when n = 2.

We show that if T is an isometry (as metric spaces) from an open subgroup of the group of invertible elements in a unital semisimple commutative Banach algebra A onto a open subgroup of the group of invertible elements in a unital Banach algebra B, then $T{\left(1\right)}^{-1}T$ is an isometrical group isomorphism. In particular, $T{\left(1\right)}^{-1}T$ extends to an isometrical real algebra isomorphism from A onto B.

Let H and K be complex complete indefinite inner product spaces, and ℬ(H,K) (ℬ(H) if K = H) the set of all bounded linear operators from H into K. For every T ∈ ℬ(H,K), denote by $T^{†}$ the indefinite conjugate of T. Suppose that Φ: ℬ(H) → ℬ(K) is a bijective linear map. We prove that Φ satisfies $\Phi \left(A\right)\Phi \left(B\right)=\Phi \left(B\right)\Phi {\left(A\right)}^{†}$ for all A, B ∈ ℬ(H) with $AB=B{A}^{†}$ if and only if there exist a nonzero real number c and a generalized indefinite unitary operator U ∈ ℬ(H,K) such that $\Phi \left(A\right)=cUA{U}^{†}$ for all A ∈ ℬ(H).

Let H be an infinite-dimensional separable complex Hilbert space and B(H) the algebra of all bounded linear operators on H. For an operator T in B(H), let σg(T) denote the generalized spectrum of T. In this paper, we prove that if φ: B(H) → B(H) is a surjective linear map, then φ preserves the generalized spectrum (i.e. σg(φ(T)) = σg(T) for every T ∈ B(H)) if and only if there is A ∈ B(H) invertible such that either φ(T) = ATA-1 for every T ∈ B(H), or φ(T) = ATtrA-1 for every T ∈ B(H). Also, we...

Let θ : ℳ → 𝓝 be a zero-product preserving linear map between algebras. We show that under some mild conditions θ is a product of a central element and an algebra homomorphism. Our result applies to matrix algebras, standard operator algebras, C*-algebras and W*-algebras.

Let A and B be Banach function algebras on compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y, respectively, and let $\overline{A}$ and $\overline{B}$ be their uniform closures. Let I, I′ be arbitrary non-empty sets, α ∈ ℂ{0, ρ: I → A, τ: l′ → a and S: I → B T: l′ → B be maps such that ρ(I, τ(I′) and S(I), T(I′) are closed under multiplications and contain exp A and expB, respectively. We show that if ‖S(p)T(p′)−α‖Y=‖ρ(p)τ(p′) − α‖x for all p ∈ I and p′ ∈ I′, then there exist a real algebra isomorphism S: A → B, a clopen subset K of M B and...

A linear map T from a Banach algebra A into another B preserves zero products if T(a)T(b) = 0 whenever a,b ∈ A are such that ab = 0. This paper is mainly concerned with the question of whether every continuous linear surjective map T: A → B that preserves zero products is a weighted homomorphism. We show that this is indeed the case for a large class of Banach algebras which includes group algebras. Our method involves continuous bilinear maps ϕ: A × A → X (for some Banach space X) with the property...

Let $𝒳$ be a Banach space of dimension $n>1$ and $𝔄\subset ℬ\left(𝒳\right)$ be a standard operator algebra. In the present paper it is shown that if a mapping $d:𝔄\to 𝔄$ (not necessarily linear) satisfies $$d\left(\right[[U,V],W\left]\right)=\left[\right[d\left(U\right),V],W]+\left[\right[U,d\left(V\right)],W]+\left[\right[U,V],d(W\left)\right]$$ for all $U,V,W\in 𝔄$, then $d=\psi +\tau$, where $\psi$ is an additive derivation of $𝔄$ and $\tau :𝔄\to 𝔽I$ vanishes at second commutator $\left[\right[U,V],W]$ for all $U,V,W\in 𝔄$. Moreover, if $d$ is linear and satisfies the above relation, then there exists an operator $S\in 𝔄$ and a linear mapping $\tau$ from $𝔄$ into $𝔽I$ satisfying $\tau \left(\right[[U,V],W\left]\right)=0$ for all $U,V,W\in 𝔄$, such that $d\left(U\right)=SU-US+\tau \left(U\right)$ for all $U\in 𝔄$.

Let A and B be Banach function algebras on compact Hausdorff spaces X and Y and let ‖.‖X and ‖.‖Y denote the supremum norms on X and Y, respectively. We first establish a result concerning a surjective map T between particular subsets of the uniform closures of A and B, preserving multiplicatively the norm, i.e. ‖Tf Tg‖Y = ‖fg‖X, for certain elements f and g in the domain. Then we show that if α ∈ ℂ 0 and T: A → B is a surjective, not necessarily linear, map satisfying ‖fg + α‖X = ‖Tf Tg + α‖Y,...

Let A be a commutative semisimple Banach algebra, Δ(A) its Gelfand spectrum, T a multiplier on A and T̂ its Gelfand transform. We study the following problems. (a) When is δ(T) = inf{|T̂(f)|: f ∈ Δ(A), T̂(f) ≠ 0} > 0? (b) When is the range T(A) of T closed in A and does it have a bounded approximate identity? (c) How to characterize the idempotent multipliers in terms of subsets of Δ(A)?