On the existence of the unilateral unit in Banach algebras

DOI10.1007/BF02904260MaRDI QIDQ2368616zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Rachid Choukri, A. El Kinani, M. Oudadess

Publication date 26 April 2006

Published in Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904260

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of topological algebras (46H05)

Review text

Let \(A\) be a complex Banach algebra. The condition that for \(a \in A\) there is a bounded sequence \((b_{n})\) such that \(\lim_{n}ab_{n} = a\) is denoted by \(P_{a}\). The authors show that \(A\) verifies \(P_{a}\) if and only if the ideal \(aA\) is \(A\) itself. The so-called \`\` property of factorisation of bounded sequences\'\'\ is that for any bounded sequence \((c_{n})\) in \(A\) there exists an \(a \in A\) and a bounded sequence \((b_{n})\) such that \(c_{n} = a b_{n}\) for all \(n\). They show that if \(A\) is separable then this property is equivalent to the existence of an \(a \in A\) such that \(aA = A\) (so also equivalent to \(P_{a}\)). Noting that \(aA = A\) does not imply the existence of a unit element the authors try for conditions involving unit elements when the ideal \(aA\) is everywhere dense in \(A\). In one set of conditions the authors use the spectrum when \(A\) has a unit element \(\sigma(a) =\{ \lambda \in \mathbb{C}: a - \lambda I\) not invertible\(\}\) and otherwise the spectrum is defined by adjoining a unit element to \(A\). They show that if \(0\) is an isolated point of \(\sigma(a)\) then \(P_{a}\) holds if and only if both \(A\) has a left unit and \(aA\) is everywhere dense in \(A\). The other set of conditions is that if \(A\) has the above factorisation property and both \(aA\) and \(Aa\) are everywhere dense then \(A\) is unital if and only if \(x\) is in the closure of \(Ax\) for all \(x \in A\).

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