Positive functionals on Lau Banach *-algebras with application to negative-definite functions on foundation semigroups

DOI10.1007/PL00005919MaRDI QIDQ1365570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mahmood Lashkarizadeh Bami

Publication date 4 September 1997

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00005919

zbMATH Keywords

bounded negative definite functioncommutative discrete \(*\)-semigroupfoundation topological \(*\)-semigroupsmultiplicative Borel measurable weight functionspace of all \(*\)-semicharacterstopology of pointwise convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of topological algebras with involution (46K05) Groups and semigroups of linear operators (47D03)

Review text

It is well-known that if \(f\) is a bounded negative definite function on a commutative discrete \(*\)-semigroup \(S\) with an identity \(1\), then there exists a positive measure \(\lambda\in M(\widehat S)\) such that \[ f(x)= f(1)+ \int_{\widehat S}[1-\chi(x)] d\lambda(\chi)\quad (x\in S), \] where \(\widehat S\) denotes the space of all \(*\)-semicharacters on \(S\) endowed with the topology of pointwise convergence. In the present paper, through a different method, we extend this result to the continuous negative definite functions which are bounded with respect to a multiplicative Borel measurable weight function on foundation topological \(*\)-semigroups. This family of semigroups is quite extensive and it contains topological groups and discrete semigroups as elementary examples.

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