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Idempotents in Complex Banach Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. N. Hile
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
W. E. Pfaffenberger
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
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The concept of the spectrum of A relative to Q, where A and Q commute and are elements in a complex Banach algebra with identity I, was developed in [1]. A complex number z is in the Q-resolvent set of A if and only if is invertible in otherwise, z is in the Q-spectrum of A, or spectrum of A relative to Q. One result from [1] was the following.

THEOREM. Suppose no points in the ordinary spectrum of Q have unit magnitude. Let C be a simple closed rectifiable curve which lies in the Q-resolvent of A, and let

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where P is defined asxs

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

References

1. Hile, G. N. and Pfaffenberger, W. E., Generalized spectral theory in complex Banach algebras, Can. J. Math. 37 (1985), 12111236.Google Scholar
2. Rickart, C. E., General theory of Banach algebras, The University Series in Higher Mathematics (Van Nostrand, Princeton, N.J., 1960).Google Scholar