Strong Ditkin algebras without bounded relative units

In a previous note the author gave an example of a strong Ditkin algebra which does not have bounded relative units in the sense of Dales. In this note we investigate a certain family of Banach function algebras on the one point compactification of the natural numbers, and see that within this family are many easier examples of strong Ditkin algebras without bounded relative units in the sense of Dales.Comment: 7 pages, plain tex, some extra comments and reference

Weak Sequential Completeness of Uniform Algebras

We prove that a uniform algebra is weakly sequentially complete if and only if it is finite-dimensional

The chain rule for F\mathcal F-differentiation

Let $X$ be a perfect, compact subset of the complex plane, and let $D^{(1)}(X)$ denote the (complex) algebra of continuously complex-differentiable functions on $X$. Then $D^{(1)}(X)$ is a normed algebra of functions but, in some cases, fails to be a Banach function algebra. Bland and the second author investigated the completion of the algebra $D^{(1)}(X)$, for certain sets $X$ and collections $\mathcal{F}$ of paths in $X$, by considering $\mathcal{F}$-differentiable functions on $X$. In this paper, we investigate composition, the chain rule, and the quotient rule for this notion of differentiability. We give an example where the chain rule fails, and give a number of sufficient conditions for the chain rule to hold. Where the chain rule holds, we observe that the Fa\'a di Bruno formula for higher derivatives is valid, and this allows us to give some results on homomorphisms between certain algebras of $\mathcal{F}$-differentiable functions.Comment: 12 pages, submitte