Wedderburn decompositions of commutative Banach algebras
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Abstract:
We prove that if A is a commutative Banach algebra with $\operatorname {rad}{(A)^2} = 0$ and $A/\operatorname {rad}(A) = C([0,1])$ for the unit interval [0, 1], then A has a strong Wedderburn decomposition.References
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- © Copyright 1995 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 3305-3315
- MSC: Primary 46J05; Secondary 46J40
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1301049-5
- MathSciNet review: 1301049