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Characterization of closed ideals with bounded approximate identities in commutative Banach algebras, complemented subspaces of the group von Neumann algebras and applications
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by Anthony To-Ming Lau and Ali Ülger PDF
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 4151-4171 Request permission

Abstract:

Let $A$ be a commutative Banach algebra with a BAI (=bounded approximate identity). We equip $A^{\ast \ast }$ with the (first) Arens multiplication. To each idempotent element $u$ of $A^{\ast \ast }$ we associate the closed ideal $I_{u}=\{a\in A:au=0\}$ in $A$. In this paper we present a characterization of the closed ideals of $A$ with BAI’s in terms of idempotent elements of $A^{\ast \ast }$. The main results are: a) A closed ideal $I$ of $A$ has a BAI iff there is an idempotent $u\in A^{\ast \ast }$ such that $I=I_{u}$ and the subalgebra $Au$ is norm closed in $A^{\ast \ast }$. b) For any closed ideal $I$ of $A$ with a BAI, the quotient algebra $A/I$ is isomorphic to a subalgebra of $A^{\ast \ast }$. We also show that a weak$^{\ast }$ closed invariant subspace $X$ of the group von Neumann algebra $VN(G)$ of an amenable group $G$ is naturally complemented in $VN(G)$ iff the spectrum of $X$ belongs to the closed coset ring $\Re _{c}(G_{d})$ of $G_{d}$, the discrete version of $G$. This paper contains several applications of these results.
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  • Anthony To-Ming Lau
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G1
  • MR Author ID: 110640
  • Email: tlau@math.ualberta.ca
  • Ali Ülger
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Koc University, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Email: aulger@ku.edu.tr
  • Received by editor(s): August 17, 2012
  • Published electronically: April 7, 2014
  • Additional Notes: The first author was supported by NSERC grant MS 100
  • © Copyright 2014 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 366 (2014), 4151-4171
  • MSC (2010): Primary 46H20, 43A25, 43A46; Secondary 43A22
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2014-06336-8
  • MathSciNet review: 3206455