Weakly peripherally multiplicative surjections of pointed Lipschitz algebras (Q618669)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be function algebras, not necessarily with units, and let \(T: A\to B\) be a surjection such that \(\sigma_\pi(Tf\,Tg)\cap\sigma_\pi(fg)\neq\emptyset\) for all \(f,g\in A\), where \(\sigma_\pi(f)\) is the peripheral spectrum of \(f\in A\), i.e., \(\sigma_\pi(f)=\{z\in\sigma(f): |z|=\max_{u\in\sigma(f)}|u|\}\) (such an operator is also called \textit{weakly peripherally-multiplicative}). As shown by the reviewer [Banach Center Publications 91, 411--421 (2010; Zbl 1217.46034)], if \(\sigma_\pi(Tf)=\sigma_\pi(f)\) for all \(f\in A\), then \(T\) is a composition operator on the Choquet boundary \(\delta B\), i.e., there exists a homeomorphism \(\psi:\delta B\to\delta A\) so that \((Tf)(y)=f(\psi(y))\) for all \(f\in A\) and \(y\in\delta B\). For uniform algebras, a similar result has been proven by \textit{S. Lambert, A. Luttman} and \textit{T. Tonev} [Contemporary Mathematics 435, 265--281 (2007; Zbl 1148.46030)]. The present authors prove versions of this result for the family of \textit{pointed Lipschitz algebras} on compact metric spaces. In particular, they show that every weakly peripherally-multiplicative map between two pointed Lipschitz algebras is a weighted composition operator.