LEFT DERIVATIONS ON BANACH ALGEBRAS

  • Received : 1995.06.08
  • Published : 1995.06.30

Abstract

In this paper we show that every left derivation on a semiprime Banach algebra A is a derivation which maps A into the intersection of the center of A and the Jacobson radical of A, and hence every left derivation on a semisimple Banach algebra is zero.

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