Normed algebras of differentiable functions on compact plane sets

H. G. Dales () and J. F. Feinstein ()
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H. G. Dales: University of Leeds
J. F. Feinstein: University of Nottingham

Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2010, vol. 41, issue 1, 153-187

Abstract: Abstract We investigate the completeness and completions of the normed algebras (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) for perfect, compact plane sets X. In particular, we construct a radially self-absorbing, compact plane set X such that the normed algebra (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) is not complete. This solves a question of Bland and Feinstein. We also prove that there are several classes of connected, compact plane sets X for which the completeness of (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) is equivalent to the pointwise regularity of X. For example, this is true for all rectifiably connected, polynomially convex, compact plane sets with empty interior, for all star-shaped, compact plane sets, and for all Jordan arcs in ℂ. In an earlier paper of Bland and Feinstein, the notion of an $$ \mathcal{F} $$ -derivative of a function was introduced, where $$ \mathcal{F} $$ is a suitable set of rectifiable paths, and with it a new family of Banach algebras $$ D_\mathcal{F}^{\left( 1 \right)} \left( X \right) $$ corresponding to the normed algebras D (1)(X). In the present paper, we obtain stronger results concerning the questions when D (1)(X) and $$ D_\mathcal{F}^{\left( 1 \right)} \left( X \right) $$ are equal, and when the former is dense in the latter. In particular, we show that equality holds whenever X is ‘ $$ \mathcal{F} $$ -regular’. An example of Bishop shows that the completion of (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) need not be semisimple. We show that the completion of (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) is semisimple whenever the union of all the rectifiable Jordan arcs in X is dense in X. We prove that the character space of D (1)(X) is equal to X for all perfect, compact plane sets X, whether or not (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) is complete. In particular, characters on the normed algebras (D (1)(X), ‖ · ‖) are automatically continuous.

Keywords: Normed algebra; differentiable functions; Banach function algebra; completions; pointwise regularity of compact plane sets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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