Let A be a Banach algebra with a Hilbert space norm (norm defined by a scalar product). We shall call A a right complemented algebra if it has the property that the orthogonal complement of a right ideal is again a right ideal. This notion was introduced in the author's doctoral thesis [5]. It was proved that under certain additional assumptions every right complemented algebra is left compleme...

Introduction. In this paper we give a sufficient condition that an algebra have a minimal left (or right) ideal. Specifically, we prove that if A is a complex semisimple Banach algebra with the property that the spectrum of every element in A is at most countable, then A has a minimal left ideal. If A is an ^4*-algebra, we prove that A has a minimal left ideal if the spectrum of every self-adjo...

The concept of residual intersection, introduced by Artin and Nagata [l] in 1972, is a fruitful generalization of linkage as the following two examples attest. Let I be a strongly Cohen-Macaulay ideal in a CohenMacaulay local ring R. If Z satisfies the condition (G,), then Huneke [6, Proposition 4.31 has proved that the extended Rees algebra R[It, t‘1 is defined by an ideal which is obtained fr...

‎From Hilbert's theorem of zeroes‎, ‎and from Noether's ideal theory‎, ‎Birkhoff derived certain algebraic concepts (as explained by Tholen) that have a dual significance in general toposes‎, ‎similar to their role in the original examples of algebraic geometry‎. ‎I will describe a simple example that illustrates some of the aspects of this relationship‎. The dualization from algebra to geometr...