We give a structure theorem for a ring homomorphism of a commutative regular Banach algebra into another commutative Banach algebra. In particular, it is shown that: (i) A ring homomorphism of a commutative C∗-algebra onto another commutative C∗-algebra with connected infinite Gelfand space is either linear or anti-linear. (ii) A ring automorphism of L1(R ) is either linear or anti-linear. (iii...

Let R be a commutative radical Fréchet algebra having a nonnilpotent element a with a ∈ Ra. Then R contains a continuum of incomparable prime ideals. In [3], J. Esterle proved the following result; it is a main ingredient in his proof that epimorphisms from C0(Ω) onto Banach algebras are continuous. Theorem (Esterle). Let R be a commutative radical Banach algebra. Suppose that there exists a no...

Let $R$ be a 2-torsion free semiprime ring with extended centroid $C$, $U$ the Utumi quotient ring of $R$ and $m,n>0$ are fixed integers. We show that if $R$ admits derivation $d$ such that $b[[d(x), x]_n,[y,d(y)]_m]=0$ for all $x,yin R$ where $0neq bin R$, then there exists a central idempotent element $e$ of $U$ such that $eU$ is commutative ring and $d$ induce a zero derivation on $(1-e)U$. ...

In this article we study two different generalizations of von Neumann regularity, namely strong topological regularity and weak regularity, in the Banach algebra context. We show that both are hereditary properties and under certain assumptions, weak regularity implies strong topological regularity. Then we consider strong topological regularity of certain concrete algebras. Moreover we obtain ...

We prove necessary conditions for a commutative Banach algebra to be the semidirect product of some subalgebra together with a speci ed principal ideal. x

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 ...

In [9], Dawson and the second author asked whether or not a Banach function algebra with dense invertible group can have a proper Shilov boundary. We give an example of a uniform algebra showing that this can happen, and investigate the properties of such algebras. We make some remarks on the topological stable rank of commutative, unital Banach algebras. In particular, we prove that tsr(A) ≥ t...

let  be a banach algebra and  a derivation. in this paper, it is proved, under certain conditions, that , where  is the jacobson radical of . moreover, we prove that if  is unital and  is a continuous derivation, then , where  denotes the set of all primitive ideals such that  is commutative,  denotes the set of all maximal (modular) ideals such that  is commutative, and  is the set of all non-...