Published December 28, 2005
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On Firmness of the State Space and Positive Elements of a Banach Algebra
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- 1. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Description
This paper is an investigation of positive elements in a Banach algebra. Under the firmness of the state space of a Banach algebra, it is shown that even powers of positive Hermitian elements are in fact positive.