We show that the trace and the determinant on a semisimple Banach algebra can be defined in a purely spectral and analytic way and then we obtain many consequences from these new definitions.
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7600 South Africa
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