International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 7 (1984), Issue 3, Pages 519-522
doi:10.1155/S0161171284000570
Finite dimensionality in scole of Banach algebras
Department of Mathematics, Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki 310, Japan
Received 23 September 1982
Copyright © 1984 Sin-Ei Takahasi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
It is shown that if the socle soc(A) of a semisimple Banach algebra A is norm-closed, then soc(A) is already finite dimensional. The proof makes use of the Al-Moajil theorem. However it is remarked that our main theorem is an extension of the Al-Moajil's.