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Positive Functionals and Representations of Tensor Products of Symmetric Banach Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Harvey A. Smith*
Affiliation:
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
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Except for using “algebra” rather than “ring” and “compact” rather than “bicompact”, we adopt the terminology used in (6). Every symmetric algebra, Ai, will have an identity, ei All representations will be cyclic and symmetric. Sets of functionals will carry the relative weak* topology.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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