Continuity of homomorphisms into complete normed algebraic algebras (Q1398136)

Let \(A\) and \(B\) be complete normed associative algebras and assume that \(B\) is strongly semisimple. A theorem by C. E. Rickart states that then dense range homomorphisms from \(A\) to \(B\) are continuous. But it is an open problem whether the assumption of associativity can be dropped. The authors consider a special case of this problem: Assume \(A\) and \(B\) are complete normed nonassociative algebras over the field \(F\) of real or complex numbers, and, in addition, \(B\) is strongly semisimple and algebraic, i.e. every single-generated subalgebra of \(B\) is finite-dimensional. Then dense range homomorphisms from \(A\) to \(B\) are continuous. Moreover, they show that homomorphisms from complete normed algebras over \({\mathbf F}\) into a complete normed power-associative algebraic algebra \(B\) are continuous if and only if \(B\) has no nonzero elements with zero square. If \(B\) is a finite-dimensional algebra then homomorphisms from complete normed algebras into \(B\) are continuous if and only if \(B\) has no nonzero elements with zero square.