Gelfand Theory for Non-Commutative Banach Algebras

DOI10.1093/QJMATH/53.2.161zbMATH Open1007.46043arXivmath/0202306OpenAlexW2594031737MaRDI QIDQ3148701FDOQ3148701

Authors: El Hossein Illoussamen, Volker Runde, Rachid Choukri 

Publication date: 14 March 2003

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $A$ be a Banach algebra. We call a pair $(G,B)$ a Gelfand theory for $A$ if the following axioms are satisfied: (G 1) $B$ is a $C^{a}st$-algebra, and $G:AoB$ is a homomorphism; (G 2) the assignment $Lmapsto{G}^{-1}(L)$ is a bijection between the sets of maximal modularleft ideals of $B$ and $A$, respectively; (G 3) for each maximal modular left ideal $L$ of $B$, the linear map $G_L:A/G^{-1}(L)oB/L$ induced by $B$ has dense range. The Gelfand theory of a commutative Banach algebra is easily seen to be characterized by these axioms. Gelfand theories of arbitrary Banach algebras enjoy many of the properties of commutative Gelfand theory. We show that unital, homogeneous Banach algebras always have a Gelfand theory. For liminal $C^{a}st$-algebras with discrete spectrum, we show that the identity is the only Gelfand theory (up to an appropriate notion of equivalence).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0202306

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zbMATH Keywords

Gelfand theorymaximal modular left idealsliminal \(C^*\)-algebras with discrete spectrumunital homogeneous Banach algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) General theory of topological algebras (46H05)

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