Automatic continuity over Moore groups (Q1358624)

A Moore group is a locally compact group all of whose topologically irreducible representations are finite-dimensional. This class contains all abelian and all compact groups. Let \(G\) be a Moore group, \(B\) a Banach algebra, and \(\theta: L^1(G)\to B\) a homomorphism. Then it is shown that \(\theta\) is continuous if and only if its restriction to the centre of \(L^1(G)\) is continuous. This implies that every homomorphism of \(L^1(G)\) (or the \(C^*\) algebra \(C^*(G)\) of \(G\)) with dense range in a semisimple Banach algebra is continuous and that every surjective homomorphism of \(C^*(G)\) onto a Banach algebra is continuous.