Continuity of homomorphisms and derivations on normed algebras which are tensor products of algebras with involution. (Q1414964): Difference between revisions

Let \(B\) and \(C\) be normed algebras -- not necessarily associative -- over the real or complex numbers, both equipped with a continuous involution. Moreover, suppose that \(C\) has an identity and that \(B\) is finite-dimensional, central simple (meaning that the only bimodule homomorphisms from \(B\) into itself are the scalar multiples of the identity), and that the involution on \(B\) is neither the identity nor its negative. Then the algebraic tensor product \(A := B \otimes C\) equipped with the projective norm is also a Banach algebra with continuous involution. The authors show that a derivation from \(A\) into a normed -- again not necessarily associative -- algebra and any derivation into a normed \(A\)-bimodule is continuous whenever it is continuous on the self-adjoint part of \(A\). Some more, but rather technical, information is obtained if \(B\) (and finally also \(C\)) is associative.