Ultrametric Banach Algebras

✍ Scribed by Alain Escassut

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume, ultrametric Banach algebras are studied with the help of topological considerations, properties from affinoid algebra, and circular filters which characterize absolute values on polynomials and make a nice tree structure. The Shilov boundary does exist for normed ultrametric algebras. The spectral norm is equal to the supremum of all continuous multiplicative seminorms whose kernel is a maximal ideal. Two different such seminorms can have the same kernel. Krasner-Tate algebras are characterized among Krasner algebras, affinoid algebra, and ultrametric Banach algebras. Given a Krasner-Tate algbebra A=K{t}[x], the absolute values extending the Gauss norm from K{t} to A are defined by the elements of the Shilov boundary of A.