In this paper, we give a complete description of closed ideals of the Banach algebra $\mathcal {B}^{s}_{p}\cap \lambda _{\alpha }$ , where $\mathcal {B}^{s}_{p}$ denotes the analytic Besov space and $\lambda _{\alpha }$ is the separable analytic Lipschitz space. Our result extends several previous results in Bahajji-El Idrissi and El-Fallah (2020, Studia Mathematica 255, 209–217), Bouya (2009, Canadian Journal of Mathematics 61, 282–298), and Shirokov (1982, Izv. Ross. Akad. Nauk Ser. Mat. 46, 1316–1332).

Let $\chi $ be a locally compact metric space and let $\mathcal{A}$ be any of the Lipschitz algebras $\text{Li}{{\text{p}}_{\alpha }}\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ }$, $\text{Li}{{\text{p}}_{\alpha }}\text{ }\!\!\chi\!\!\text{ }$, or $\text{lip}_{\alpha }^{0}\,\chi $. In this paper, we show, as a consequence of rather more general results on Banach algebras, that $\mathcal{A}$ is $C$-character amenable if and only if $\chi $ is uniformly discrete.

For a closed set $E$ contained in the closed unit interval, we show that the big Lipschitz algebra $\varLambda_{\gamma}(E)$ $(0\lt\gamma\lt1)$ is sequentially weak$^{\ast}$ generated by its idempotents if and only if it is weak$^{\ast}$ generated by its idempotents if and only if the little Lipschitz algebra $\lambda_{\gamma}(E)$ is generated by its idempotents, and we describe a class of perfect symmetric sets for which this holds. Moreover, we prove that $\varLambda_1(E)$ is sequentially weak$^{\ast}$ generated by its idempotents if and only if $E$ is of measure zero. Finally, we show that the quotient algebras

$$ \mathcal{A}_{\beta}/\overline{J_{\beta}(E)}^{\text{weak}^{\ast}} $$

of the Beurling algebras need not be weak$^{\ast}$ generated by their idempotents, when $E$ is of measure zero and $\beta\ge\tfrac{1}{2}$.

AMS 2000 Mathematics subject classification: Primary 46J10; 46J30; 26A16; 42A16