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Derivations with large separating subspace

Authors :
C. J. Read
Source :
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 130:3671-3677
Publication Year :
2002
Publisher :
American Mathematical Society (AMS), 2002.

Abstract

In his famous paper The image of a derivation is contained in the radical, Marc Thomas establishes the (commutative) Singer-Wermer conjecture, showing that derivations from a commutative Banach algebra A to itself must map into the radical. The proof goes via first showing that the separating subspace of a derivation on A must lie in the radical of A. In this paper, we exhibit discontinuous derivations on a commutative unital Frechet algebra A such that the separating subspace is the whole of A. Thus, the situation on Frechet algebras is markedly different from that on Banach algebras.

Details

ISSN :
10886826 and 00029939
Volume :
130
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........7a57b192e8c10b052e4c73aea2128c7b