EPIMORPHISMS ONTO DERIVATION ALGEBRAS

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Spectral techniques have proven to be very powerful in automatic continuity theory; the present paper is another fine example of this. Let \(A\) be a Banach algebra and let \({\mathcal D}er(A)\) denote the Banach Lie algebra of all continuous derivations on~\(A\). Let \(\text{Rad}(A)\) denote the Jacobson radical of~\(A\). Suppose that \(\Phi\) is an epimorphism from a Banach Lie algebra \(\mathcal L\) onto \({\mathcal D}er(A)\) and let \(\mathcal S(\Phi)\) stand for the separating subspace of~\(\Phi\). The main result states that \(D(A)\subseteq\text{Rad}(A)\) for every \(D\in\mathcal S(A)\). As a consequence, \(\Phi\) must be continuous whenever \(A\) is semisimple and \({\mathcal Der}(A)\) carries a unique Banach Lie algebra topology in this case. The paper concludes with stating the open problem whether every derivation \(\Delta:{\mathcal D}er(A)\to{\mathcal D}er(A)\) must be continuous if \(A\) is semisimple.











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