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AN ALMOST PRIME ELEMENT IN A COMMUTATIVE RADICAL BANACH ALGEBRA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2005

DOMINIC PINTO
DOMINIC PINTO
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Thomas conjectured that there is no such thing as an almost prime element in a commutative radical Banach algebra. This paper shows that there is such an element. However, it still leaves open the question of whether there is an element that is almost prime, but not prime.

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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , August 2005 , pp. 613 - 620
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© The London Mathematical Society 2005

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