For G a locally compact abelian group, any closed invariant proper subalgebra of CQ(G) has analytic discs in its spectrum. Related results are given for A(G) and B(G). For a compact group G it is an easy consequence of Bishop's generalized Stone-Weierstrass theorem and some well-known facts on representations that a proper (doubly) invariant uniform algebra on G cannot have G as its spectrum. (...

These lectures given in Montreal in Summer 1997 are mainly based on, and form a condensed survey of the book N. Chriss, V. Ginzburg ‘Representation Theory and Complex Geometry’ , Birkhäuser 1997. Various algebras arising naturally in Representation Theory such as the group algebra of a Weyl group, the universal enveloping algebra of a complex semisimple Lie algebra, a Quantum group or the Iwaho...

In the present paper, the concepts of module (uniform) approximate amenability and contractibility of Banach algebras that are modules over another Banach algebra, are introduced. The general theory is developed and some hereditary properties are given. In analogy with the Banach algebraic approximate amenability, it is shown that module approximate amenability and contractibility are the same ...

We consider and study Blaschke inductive limit algebras A(b), defined as inductive limits of disc algebras A(D) linked by a sequence b = {Bk}k=1 of finite Blaschke products. It is well known that big G-disc algebras AG over compact abelian groups G with ordered duals Γ = Ĝ ⊂Q can be expressed as Blaschke inductive limit algebras. Any Blaschke inductive limit algebraA(b) is a maximal and Dirichl...

In the present paper we introduce analogs of almost periodic functions on the unit circle. We study certain uniform algebras generated by such functions, prove corona theorems for them and describe their maximal ideal spaces. 1. Formulation of Main Results 1.1. The classical almost periodic functions on the real line first introduced by H. Bohr in the 1920s play an important role in various are...

We present tractable algorithms for deciding the universal theories of lattices with different notions of complementation by reduction to more standard procedures. The reductions use basic structural properties of lattices. For Boolean algebras, generalised Boolean algebras and atomic distributive lattices we reduce to SAT-procedures. For Brouwerian algebras we reduce to the uniform word proble...

My talk is based on article [1]. Our aim is to give a unified topological approach to several results about a certain type of fuzzy measures, namely T∞−valuations (2) on clans of fuzzy sets (1) (in the sense of Butnariu and Klement [2]). We will transfer the method of [3], used to study FN-topologies (4) and measures on Boolean rings, to the study of T∞−valuations. So we need, for the domain of...