Prime-like Elements and Semi-direct Prod
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Marc P. Thomas
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We develop results which show that elements in the radical of a commutative Banach algebra are often precluded from having prime-like properties if we avoid certain exceptional situations involving torsion elements. This makes the proof of the Singer-Wermer conjecture conceptually much clearer. It a