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Derivations mapping into the radical

M.Sc. / One of the earliest results (1955) in the theory of derivations is the celebrated theorem of I. M. Singer and J. Wermer [14] which asserts that every bounded derivation on a commutative Banach algebra has range contained in the radical. However, they immediately conjectured that their result will still hold if the boundedness condition was dropped. This conjecture of Singer and Wermer was confirmed only in 1988, by M. P. Thomas [23], when he showed that every derivation (bounded or unbounded) on a commutative Banach algebra has range contained in the radical. But it is not known whether an analogue of the Kleinecke-Shirokov Theorem holds for everywhere defined unbounded derivation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:6842
Date27 May 2010
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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