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The ideas and results are a delightful interplay between the geometry of Banach spaces and the abstract Banach algebra theory. This article is a must read for practitioners of both areas.  We recall from \\textit{P. Harmand} et al. [\\(M\\)-ideals in Banach spaces and Banach algebras. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (1993; Zbl 0789.46011)] that a linear projection \\(P: A \\rightarrow A\\) is said to be an \\(M\\)(\\(L\\))-projection if \\(\\|a\\| =\\max\\{\\|P(a)\\|,\\|a-P(a)\\|\\}\\) (\\(\\|a\\|= \\|P(a)\\|+\\|a-P(a)\\|\\)) for all \\(a \\in A\\). A closed subspace \\(J \\subset A\\) is said to be an \\(M\\)-ideal, if there is an \\(L\\)-projection in \\(A^\\ast\\) such that \\(\\ker(P) = J^\\bot\\). It is well known that in a \\(C^\\ast\\)-algebra, these are precisely the closed two-sided ideals. An important question in the Banach algebra theory is to identify \\(M\\)-ideals in terms of the algebraic structure.  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