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COMPACT ENDOMORPHISMS OF BANACH ALGEBRAS OF INFINITELY DIFFERENTIABLE FUNCTIONS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

JOEL F. FEINSTEIN
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD joel.feinstein@nottingham.ac.uk
HERBERT KAMOWITZ
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125-3393, USAhkamo@cs.umb.edu
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Abstract

Let $(M_n)$ be a sequence of positive numbers satisfying $M_0\,{=}\,1$ and \[\displaystyle \frac{M_{n+m}}{M_n M_m}\,{\geq}\,{{n+m}\choose{m}} \] for all non-negative integers $m$, $n$. Let \[D([0,1], M)=\left\{f\,{\in}\,C^{\infty}([0,1]):\|f\|_{D}=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{\|f^{(n)}\|_{\infty}}{M_n}\,{<}\,\infty\right\}.\] With pointwise addition and multiplication, $D([0,1],M)$ is a unital commutative semisimple Banach algebra. If $\lim_{n\to\infty} (n!/M_n)^{1/n}\,{=}\,0,$ then the maximal ideal space of the algebra is $[0,1]$, and every non-zero endomorphism $T$ has the form $Tf(x)\,{=}\,f(\phi(x))$ for some selfmap $\phi$ of the unit interval. The authors have previously shown for a wide class of $\phi$ mapping the unit interval to itself that if $\|\phi'\|_\infty\,{<}\,1$, then $\phi$ induces a compact endomorphism. The paper investigates the extent to which this condition is necessary, and the spectra of all compact endomorphisms of $D([0,1],M)$ are determined. Some of the authors' earlier results on general endomorphisms of $D([0,1],M)$ are simplified and strengthened.

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The London Mathematical Society 2004

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This research was supported by EPSRC grants GR/M31132 and GR/R09589.