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Derivations with large separating subspace
Author(s):
C.
J.
Read
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
130
(2002),
3671-3677.
MSC (2000):
Primary 46H20, 46H05;
Secondary 46H40, 13A02, 13A10, 46M05, 13A05
Posted:
April 22, 2002
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In his famous paper The image of a derivation is contained in the radical, Marc Thomas establishes the (commutative) Singer-Wermer conjecture, showing that derivations from a commutative Banach algebra to itself must map into the radical. The proof goes via first showing that the separating subspace of a derivation on must lie in the radical of . In this paper, we exhibit discontinuous derivations on a commutative unital Fréchet algebra such that the separating subspace is the whole of . Thus, the situation on Fréchet algebras is markedly different from that on Banach algebras.
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Additional Information:
C.
J.
Read
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Email:
read@maths.leeds.ac.uk
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06485-7
PII:
S 0002-9939(02)06485-7
Keywords:
Derivation,
Fr\'{e}chet algebra,
Banach algebra,
radical,
separating subspace,
automatic continuity
Received by editor(s):
March 13, 2001
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
July 24, 2001
Posted:
April 22, 2002
Communicated by:
N. Tomczak-Jaegermann
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2002,
American Mathematical Society
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