Where to find the image of a derivation
Where to find the image of a derivation
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哪里可以找到推导图像
DOI:
10.4064/-30-1-237-249
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发表时间:
1994
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通讯作者:
Martin Mathieu
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作者:
Martin Mathieu
With this paper, we intend to provide an overview of some recent work on a problem on unbounded derivations of Banach algebras that still defies solution, the noncommutative Singer–Wermer conjecture. In particular, we discuss several global as well as local properties of derivations entailing quasinilpotency in the image. 1. Where to look for . . . Derivations may serve as the generators of reversible evolutions of a physical system, say, if this is modelled by a Banach algebra. Not only historically, this point of view gave a strong impetus to the investigation of derivations and of how their properties relate to the structure of Banach algebras. The easiest examples one encounters are the inner derivations δa : x 7→ xa − ax, where a is a given element in the Banach algebra A, and one may be tempted to think that there are no others. Indeed, one is morally right: a non-vanishing first cohomology group is generally considered rather as an obstacle than a delight, as well as philosophically: often derivations become inner in a larger Banach algebra. Here is an example. Let us suppose that A is unital. (Since every derivation δ vanishes on the identity, this is no restriction of generality and will therefore be tacitly assumed henceforth.) Identifying A with a closed subalgebra of the algebra B of all bounded linear operators on A via the left regular representation a 7→ La, one has [La, δ](x) = aδ(x)− δ(ax) = −δ(a)x = L−δ(a)(x) (x ∈ A) , that is, [La, δ] = L−δ(a) or, under the above identification, δ(a) = δ−δ(a) for all a ∈ A. Of course, to this end we have to assume that δ is bounded. This already indicates that the actual problem is with unbounded derivations, but as is well known, even bounded derivations in general need not be inner in the strict sense 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 47B47; Secondary 46-02, 46H99, 47-02. The paper is in final form and no version of it will be published elsewhere.