In this paper, we give a short survey of results and problems concerning the notion of bounded weak approximate identities in Banach algebras. Also, we introduce a new version of approximate identities and give one illuminating example to show the difference.

Let A and B be two Banach algebras and let M be a Banach B-bimodule. Suppose that σ : A → B is a linear mapping and d : A → M is a σ-derivation. We prove several results about automatic continuity of σderivations on Banach algebras. In addition, we define a notion for m-weakly continuous linear mapping and show that, under certain conditions, d and σ are m-weakly continuous. Moreover, we prove ...

The infinite-dimensional analogues of the classical general linear group appear as groups of invertible elements of Banach algebras. Mappings of these groups onto themselves that extend to affine mappings of the ambient Banach algebra are shown to be linear exactly when the Banach algebra is semi-simple. The form of such linear mappings is studied when the Banach algebra is a C*-algebra.

We study an interesting class of Banach function algebras of innitely dierentiable functions onperfect, compact plane sets. These algebras were introduced by Honary and Mahyar in 1999, calledLipschitz algebras of innitely dierentiable functions and denoted by Lip(X;M; ), where X is aperfect, compact plane set, M = fMng1n=0 is a sequence of positive numbers such that M0 = 1 and(m+n)!Mm+n ( m!Mm)...

Let A be a Banach algebra, not necessarily unital, and let B be a closed subalgebra of A. We establish a connection between the Banach cyclic cohomology group HC(A) of A and the Banach B-relative cyclic cohomology group HCnB(A) of A. We prove that, for a Banach algebra A with a bounded approximate identity and an amenable closed subalgebra B of A, up to topological isomorphism, HC(A) = HCnB(A) ...

In this note, unless we say otherwise every vector space or algebra we speak about is over C. If A is a Banach algebra and e ∈ A satisfies xe = x and ex = x for all x ∈ A, and also ‖e‖ = 1, we say that e is unity and that A is unital. If A is a unital Banach algebra and x ∈ A, the spectrum of x is the set σ(x) of those λ ∈ C for which λe−x is not invertible. It is a fact that if A is a unital B...

In this paper we define the notion of weak Arens regular Banach algebras and extend the concept of quasi-multipliers to this certain class of Banach algebras. Among other the relationship between Arens regularity of the algebra A∗∗ of a weak Arens regular Banach algebra A and the space QMr(A∗) of all bilinear and separately continuous right quasimultipliers of A∗ is investigated. Further, we st...

We introduce the notion of the Fourier and Fouier-Stieltjes algebra of a topological ∗-semigroup and show that these are commutative Banach algebras. For a class of foundation semigroups, we show that these are preduals of von Neumann algebras. 1. Definitions and Notations Let S be a locally compact topological semigroup and M(S) be the Banach algebra of all bounded regular Borel measures μ on ...