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Topologies on the ideal space of a Banach algebra and spectral synthesis

Author(s): Ferdinand Beckhoff
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 2859-2866.
MSC (1991): Primary 46J20
MathSciNet review: 1389504
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Abstract: Let the space $\id (A)$ of closed two-sided ideals of a Banach algebra $A$ carry the weak topology. We consider the following property called normality (of the family of finite subsets of $A)$: if the net $(I_i)_i$ in $\id (A)$ converges weakly to $I$, then for all $a\in A\backslash I$ we have $\liminf _i\|a+I_i\|>0$ (e.g. $C^*$-algebras, $L^1(G)$ with compact $G,\ldots )$. For a commutative Banach algebra normality is implied by spectral synthesis of all closed subsets of the Gelfand space $\Delta (A)$, the converse does not always hold, but it does under the following additional geometrical assumption: $\rinf \{\|\varphi _1-\varphi _2\|;\varphi _1,\varphi _2 \in \Delta(A), \varphi _1\neq \varphi_2\}>0$.


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Additional Information:

Ferdinand Beckhoff
Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut der Universität Münster, Einsteinstraße 62, 48149 Münster, Germany
Email: beckhof@math.uni-muenster.de

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03831-8
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03831-8
Received by editor(s): October 3, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 19, 1996
Communicated by: Theodore Gamelin
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society




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