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On Banach modules II. Pseudodeterminants and traces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

S. KAIJSER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 480, S-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden e-mail [email protected]

Abstract

1. In the paper [Kai] it was observed that if A is a Banach algebra (over R or C) then the dual space is not only an A-A-bimodule, but is also injective as a left (or right) A-module. Furthermore, if M is a left (or right) Banach module over the unital Banach algebra A, then there is a natural bilinear map, there denoted TrA, from M × M′ to A′, defined by

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(or 〈TrA(m, m′), a〉 = 〈m′, ma〉). The map TrA can be extended to the projective tensor product M[otimesas]M′, which is also an AA–bimodule.It is easy to see that the map TrA is a bimodule homomorphism, so that the image is an AA–submodule of A′. This module was denoted EA (M) in [Kai] and is in general not closed as a subspace of M′. It does, however, have a natural norm (as a quotient space of M[otimesas]M′) and the unit ball can be used to define a new norm ∥anew = sup {|〈e, a〉 | e∈ the unit ball of EA(M)} on A, and it is easy to see that this new norm is simply the operator norm of a as an operator on M. The conclusion is that if a′A′ is not only continuous with respect to the norm ∥aL(M) (which is of course in general smaller thatn the given norm on A) but also with respect to the weak topology on A given by the set of all functionals of the form (0·1), then a′ has a representation of the form

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Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Cambridge Philosophical Society 1997

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