Some results about the spectrum of commutative banach algebras under the weak topology and applications

Monatshefte fur Mathematik

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 353-379

  Ulger A ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amenability; Gleason parts; Homomorphism; Spectrum; Uniform algebra

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000871104     PISSN: 00269255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01308725     Document Type: Article

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