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I added Springer EoM as a reference but the definition used there does not match the definition used in the article. The definition used in the article seems to match the definition of m-convex B0-algebra which Springer says is the definition of Fréchet algebra used by "some authors". An expert is needed to add the Springer definition or at least add a redirect to an article that has it.--RDBury (talk) 20:57, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The paper is over 10 years old by now. Hard to believe it would take that long to referee even if it is very technical. So there must be some problems with it.
I would regard the conjecture therefore as still open. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.75.46.166 (talk) 13:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Today I was told by two professors in the field (W. Želazko and M. Abel) that indeed a gap was found in her proof and the problem is still open. --Jaan Vajakas (talk) 13:33, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
A Fréchet algebra is -convex if there exists such a family of semi-norms for which . In that case, by rescaling the seminorms, we may also take for each and the
seminorms are said to be submultiplicative: for all .
-convex Fréchet algebras may also be called Fréchet algebras (Husain 1991).
Continuity of multiplication. Multiplication is separately continuous if implies and for every and sequence converging in the Fréchet topology of . Multiplication is jointly continuous if and imply . Joint continuity of multiplication follows from the definition of a Fréchet algebra.
[2] For a Fréchet space with an algebra structure, if the multiplication is separately continuous, then it is automatically jointly continuous (Waelbroeck 1971), Chapter VII, Proposition 1, (Palmer 1994), 2.9.
Group of invertible elements.
If is the set of invertible elements of , then the inverse map , is continuous if and only if is a set (Waelbroeck 1971), Chapter VII, Proposition 2. Unlike for Banach algebras, may not be an open set. If is open, then is called a -algebra. (If happens to be non-unital, then we may adjoin a unit to [3] and work with , or the set of quasi invertibles[4] may take the place of .)
Conditions for -convexity.
A Fréchet algebra is -convex if and only if for every increasing family of seminorms which topologize , for each there exists and such that
Zero multiplication. If is any Fréchet space, we can make a Fréchet algebra structure by setting for all .
Smooth functions on the circle. Let be the circle group, or 1-sphere. This is a 1-dimensional compact differentiable manifold, with no boundary. Let be the set of infinitely differentiable complex valued functions on . This is clearly an algebra over the complex numbers, for pointwise multiplication. (Use the product rule for differentiation.) It is commutative, and the constant function acts as an identity. Define a countable set of seminorms on by
where denotes the supremum of the absolute value of the th derivative .[5] Then, by the product rule for differentiation, we have
where denotes the binomial coefficient, and . The primed seminorms are submultiplicative after re-scaling by .
Convolution algebra of rapidly vanishing functions on a finitely generated discrete group.
Let be a finitely generated group, with the discrete topology. This means that there exists a set of finitely many elements such that the union of all products equals . Without loss of generality, we may also assume that the identity element of is contained in .
Define
a function by
Then , and ,
since we define . Let be the
-vector space
Non -convex Fréchet algebras. The Aren's algebra
is an example of a commutative non--convex Fréchet algebra with discontinuous inversion.
The topology is given by norms
We can drop the requirement for the algebra to be locally convex, but still a complete metric space. In this case, the underlying space may be called a Fréchet space (Waelbroeck 1971) or an F-space (Rudin 1973, 1.8(e)).
If the requirement that the number of seminorms be countable is dropped, the algebra becomes locally convex (LC) or locally multiplicatively convex (LMC) (Micheal 1952) harv error: no target: CITEREFMicheal1952 (help) (Husain 1991). A complete LMC algebra is called an Arens-Michael algebra (Fragoulopoulou 2005, Chapter 1).
Perhaps themost famous, still open problem of the theory of topological algebras is whether all linear multiplicative functionals on a Frechet algebra are continuous. The statement that this be the case is known as Michael's Conjecture (Michael 1952).
^To see the completeness, let be a Cauchy sequence. Then each derivative is a Cauchy sequence in the sup norm on , and hence converges uniformly to a continuous function on . It suffices to check that is the th derivative of . But, using the fundamental theorem of calculus, and taking the limit inside the integral (using uniform convergence), we have
^To see that is Fréchet space, let be a Cauchy
sequence. Then for each ,
is a Cauchy sequence in . Define
to be the limit. Then
where the sum ranges over any finite subset of .
Let , and let be
such that
for . By letting run,
we have
for . Summing over all of , we therefore
have for .
By the estimate
we obtain . Since this
holds for each , we have
and
in the Fréchet topology, so is complete.
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Michael, Ernest A. (1952), Locally Multiplicatively-Convex Topological Algebras, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 11, MR0051444.
Mitiagin, B.; Rolewicz, S.; Żelazko, W. (1962), "Entire functions in B0-algebras", Studia Mathematica, 21: 291–306, MR0144222.
Palmer, T. W. (1994), Banach Algebras and the General Theory of -algebras, Volume I: Algebras and Banach Algebras, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 49, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN978-0-521-36637-3.
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