A commutative radical Banach algebra. A commutative radical Banach algebra.

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1. A Banach space with all products taken to be zero. Then every element is quasi invertible.

2.The Banach space L1([0,1]) with the product (fg)(x) = ò0x f(x-y)g(y)dy has f°(t) = t , 0 £ t £ 1 as a generator since f°n(t) = [( tn-1)/( (n-1)!)], the set of polynomials in one variable is Lp-dense in C([0,1]) and C([0,1]) is Lp-dense in L1([0,1]) (cf. [Rud2, Theorem 2.14]).
Moreover ||f°n || = ò01 |f°n(t)|dt = [ 1/ n!], so r(f°) = limn ||f°n ||[ 1/ n] = limn (n!)[( -1)/ n] = 0. Therefore this algebra doesn't have any character. Thus it is radical algebra.

Ref.

[Rud2] W. Rudin, Real and complex analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1986.


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