Multiplicative linear functionals in a commutative Banach algebra

From MaRDI portal





Let \(\mathcal A\) be a commutative Banach algebra with identity. The Gleason- Kahane-Zelazko Theorem characterizes the multiplicative linear functionals on \(\mathcal A\). During the past fifteen years, several people have devoted their time to this part of functional analysis. Among them we can name B. Aupetit, S. Kowalski and Z. Slodkowski, K. Jarosz, C. R. Warner and R. Whitley, M. Roitman and Y. Sternfeld as well as G. Maltese. Maltese proved a special case of this theorem using the Minkowski- Carathéodory Theorem. R. Wille has done this using a measure theoretic argument. We present a simpler proof of this. We also prove a central theorem from which several results concerning the GKZ triples will easily follow. We also give some sufficient conditions on such algebras to have the \(P(k, n)\) property.











This page was built for publication: Multiplicative linear functionals in a commutative Banach algebra

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1894903)