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Title

The continuity of Lie homomorphisms

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada
  2. Department of Pure Mathematics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland

Abstract

We prove that the separating space of a Lie homomorphism from a Banach algebra onto a Banach algebra is contained in the centre modulo the radical.

Keywords

ENG
Lie homomorphisms, Banach algebras, spectrally bounded maps

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Studia Mathematica
2000/138/2
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Pages:
193-199
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-06-21
Accepted
1999-10-19
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences