A remark on contractible Banach algebras

DOI10.2206/KYUSHUJM.67.51MaRDI QIDQ2846873zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Narutaka Ozawa

Publication date 3 September 2013

Published in Kyushu Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.6216

zbMATH Keywords

contractible Banach algebrauniform Grothendieck approximation property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure, classification of topological algebras (46H20) Topological algebras of operators (46H35) Algebras of operators on Banach spaces and other topological linear spaces (47L10)

Abstract: It is a longstanding problem whether every contractible Banach algebra is necessarily finite-dimensional. In this note, we confirm this for Banach algebras acting on Banach spaces with the uniform approximation property. This generalizes a result of Paulsen and Smith who proved the same for Banach algebras acting on Hilbert spaces.

Review text

A Banach algebra \(A\) is said to be contractible if, for every Banach \(A\)-bimodule \(E\), every derivation \(D : A \to E\) is inner. It is a long standing open conjecture that every contractible Banach algebra is finite-dimensional and, consequently, a finite direct sum of full matrix algebras. A partial result towards this conjecture is due to \textit{V.\ I.\ Paulsen} and \textit{R.\ R.\ Smith} [Proc. Edinb. Math. Soc., II. Ser. 45, No. 3, 647--652 (2002; Zbl 1031.46065)]: they proved that the conjecture is true if \(A\) is a subalgebra of \(\mathcal{B}(H)\), the algebra of all bounded linear operators on a Hilbert space \(H\).NEWLINENEWLINEIn this splendid little note, the author shows that the conjecture remains true if \(H\) is replaced by a Banach space with the UGAP, which stands for the uniform Grothendieck approximation property. (A Banach space is said to have the UGAP if each of its ultrapowers has the Grothendieck approximation property.)

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