Perturbations of the ball algebra (Q2346161)

Let \(A(B^n) =\{ f \in C(\overline{B^n}) : f \;\text{is analytic in } \mathrm{int}B^n\}\), where \(B^n\) is the unit ball in \(\mathbb C^n\), denote the ball algebra and let the Banach algebra \(B\) be its small deformation. In the paper under review, the author shows that then \(B\) is a uniform algebra whose maximal ideal space \(M(B)\) is homeomorphic to \(\overline{B^n}\) and that it must automatically consist of analytic functions and share a lot of the structure with the original algebra.