Closed ideals of operators on and complemented subspaces of Banach spaces of functions with countable support (Q2817022)

Let \(\lambda\) be an infinite cardinal number, and let \(\ell_\infty^c(\lambda)\) be the closed subspace of \(\ell_\infty(\lambda)\) consisting of the bounded scalar-valued functions on \([0,\lambda)\) with countable support. The authors show that any complemented subspace of \(\ell_\infty^c(\lambda)\) is isomorphic either to \(\ell^\infty\) or to \(\ell_\infty^c(\kappa)\) for some cardinal number \(\kappa \leq \lambda\). Among further results, it is shown that the Banach algebras \(\mathcal B(X)\) of all bounded linear operators on the spaces \(X = \ell_\infty^c(\lambda)\) or \(X = \ell_\infty(\lambda)\) have a unique closed maximal ideal, namely, the ideal \(\{T \in \mathcal B(X): I_X \neq ATB\;\text{for all}\;A, B \in \mathcal B(X)\}\) consisting of the operators that do not factor through the respective identity map.NEWLINENEWLINEThe techniques also provide an alternative approach to the classification of \textit{M. Daws} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 140, No. 2, 317--332 (2006; Zbl 1100.46011)] of the lattice of closed ideals of \(\mathcal B(X)\), where \(X = c_0(\lambda)\) or \(X = \ell^p(\lambda)\) for \(\lambda\) uncountable and \(1 \leq p < \infty\).