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The Maximal Ideal Space of H + C on the ball in Cn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Gerard Mcdonald*
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Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
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Let S denote the unit sphere in Cn, B the (open) unit ball in Cn and H(B) the collection of all bounded holomorphic functions on B. For fH(B) the limits

exist for almost every ζ in S, and the map ƒƒ* defines an isometric isomorphism from H(B) onto a closed subalgebra of L(S), denoted H(S). (The only measure on S we will refer to in this paper is the Lebesgue measure, dσ, generated by Euclidean surface area.) Rudin has shown in [4] that the spaces H(B) + C(B) and H(S) + C(S) are Banach algebras in the sup norm. In this paper we will show that the maximal ideal space of H(B) + C(B), Σ (H(B) + C(B)), is naturally homeomorphic to Σ (H(B)) and that Z (H(S) + C(S)) is naturally homeomorphic to Σ (H(S))\B.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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