Infunctional analysis, auniform algebraA on acompactHausdorfftopological spaceX is aclosed (with respect to theuniform norm)subalgebra of theC*-algebraC(X) (thecontinuouscomplex-valued functions onX) with the following properties:[1]
As a closed subalgebra of thecommutativeBanach algebraC(X) a uniform algebra is itself a unital commutative Banach algebra (when equipped with the uniform norm). Hence, it is, (by definition) aBanach function algebra.
A uniform algebraA onX is said to benatural if themaximal ideals ofA are precisely the ideals of functions vanishing at a pointx inX.
IfA is aunitalcommutativeBanach algebra such that for alla inA, then there is acompactHausdorffX such thatA is isomorphic as a Banach algebra to a uniform algebra onX. This result follows from thespectral radius formula and theGelfand representation.
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