Banach algebras with non-Hausdorff structure spaces

Banach algebras with non-Hausdorff structure spaces
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 411-415 Request permission

An example due to G. W. Mackey is an instance of a class of Banach algebras whose spaces of primitive ideas are not Hausdorff spaces.

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