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Exponentiation in Banach star algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

H. G. Dales
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School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT
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In their recently published book Bonsall and Duncan ask the following question ((1), p. 65): if A is a Banach star algebra with an identity, is it true that

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1976

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