We first study some properties‎ ‎of $A$-module homomorphisms $theta:Xrightarrow Y$‎, ‎where $X$‎ ‎and $Y$ are Fréchet $A$-modules and $A$ is a unital‎ ‎Fréchet algebra‎. ‎Then we show that if there exists a‎ ‎continued bisection of the identity for $A$‎, ‎then $theta$ is‎ ‎automatically continuous under certain condition on $X$‎. ‎In‎ ‎particular‎, ‎every homomorphism from $A$ into certain‎ ‎Fr...

The present paper deals with the concept of left amenability for a wide range of Banach algebras known as Lau algebras. It gives a fixed point property characterizing left amenable Lau algebras in terms of left Banach -modules. It also offers an application of this result to some Lau algebras related to a locally compact group G, such as the Eymard-Fourier algebra A(G), the Fourier-Stieltjes al...

We develop results which show that elements in the radical of a commutative Banach algebra are often precluded from having prime-like properties if we avoid certain exceptional situations involving torsion elements. This makes the proof of the Singer-Wermer conjecture conceptually much clearer. It also motivates the de nition of an element having regular powers and allows us to strengthen our p...

Let A be a C*-algebra with identity and suppose A has real rank 0. Suppose a complex-valued function is holomorphic and bounded on the intersection of the open unit ball of A and the identity component of the set of invertible elements of A. We show that then the function has a holomorphic extension to the entire open unit ball of A. Further, we show that this does not hold when A = C(S), where...

This paper is concerned with partially defined derivations on Banach algebras and particularly on C*-algebras and H*-algebras, a subject whose study was motivated by the question of time evolution and spatial translation in quantum physics (see [2, 7] for a full account of the theory). It is well known [4] that everywhere defined derivations on semisimple Banach algebras are automatically conti...

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A class of algebras is introduced that includes the unital Banach algebras over the complex numbers. Commutator results are proved for such algebras and used to establish spectral properties of certain elements of Banach algebras. 1. Introduction. In this note, we introduce a condition on an algebra motivated by the situation in which Schur's lemma [S1] is applicable. We say that algebras satis...

In this paper we analyze the Banach *-algebra of time-frequency shifts with absolutely summable coefficients. We prove a noncommutative version of the Wiener lemma. We also construct a faithful tracial state on this algebra which proves the algebra contains no compact operators. As a corollary we obtain a special case of the Heil-Ramanathan-Topiwala conjecture regarding linear independence of f...