International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 20 (1997), Issue 3, Pages 483-486
doi:10.1155/S0161171297000653
A characterization of B∗-algebras
Department of Mathematics, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh 15282, PA, USA
Received 11 December 1995; Revised 16 August 1996
Copyright © 1997 A. K. Gaur. 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
A characterization of B∗-algebras amongst all Banach algebras with bounded approximate
identities is obtained.