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TY - JOUR
T1 - Maximal abelian subalgebras of Banach algebras
AU - Dales, H.G.
AU - Pham, H.L.
AU - Żelazko, W.
PY - 2021/12/31
Y1 - 2021/12/31
N2 - Let (Formula presented.) be a commutative, unital Banach algebra. We consider the number of different non-commutative, unital Banach algebras (Formula presented.) such that (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in (Formula presented.). For example, we shall prove that, in the case where (Formula presented.) is an infinite-dimensional, unital Banach function algebra, (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in infinitely-many closed subalgebras of (Formula presented.) such that no two distinct subalgebras are isomorphic; the same result holds for certain examples (Formula presented.) that are local algebras. We shall also give examples of uniform algebras of the form (Formula presented.), where (Formula presented.) is a compact space, with the property that there exists a family of arbitrarily large cardinality of pairwise non-isomorphic unital Banach algebras (Formula presented.) such that each (Formula presented.) contains (Formula presented.) as a closed subalgebra and is such that (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in (Formula presented.).
AB - Let (Formula presented.) be a commutative, unital Banach algebra. We consider the number of different non-commutative, unital Banach algebras (Formula presented.) such that (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in (Formula presented.). For example, we shall prove that, in the case where (Formula presented.) is an infinite-dimensional, unital Banach function algebra, (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in infinitely-many closed subalgebras of (Formula presented.) such that no two distinct subalgebras are isomorphic; the same result holds for certain examples (Formula presented.) that are local algebras. We shall also give examples of uniform algebras of the form (Formula presented.), where (Formula presented.) is a compact space, with the property that there exists a family of arbitrarily large cardinality of pairwise non-isomorphic unital Banach algebras (Formula presented.) such that each (Formula presented.) contains (Formula presented.) as a closed subalgebra and is such that (Formula presented.) is a maximal abelian subalgebra in (Formula presented.).
KW - 46H10 (primary)
U2 - 10.1112/blms.12551
DO - 10.1112/blms.12551
M3 - Journal article
VL - 53
SP - 1879
EP - 1897
JO - Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
JF - Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
SN - 0024-6093
IS - 6
ER -