Automatic Continuity of Linear Operators (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Technical Results: 1. The separating space; 2. Discontinuity points; Part II. Intertwining Operators: 3. The existence of discontinuous intertwining operators; 4. When R has countable spectrum; 5. Operators intertwining with normal operators; Part III. Homomorphisms: 6. Isomorphisms of semisimple Banach algebras; 7. Ring isomorphisms of semisimple Banach algebras; 8. Existence of discontinuous homomorphisms and derivations; 9. Homomorphisms between C(Ω)-modules; 10. Homomorphisms from C(Ω); 11. Homomorphisms into radical Banach algebras; 12. Homomorphisms and derivations from C*-algebras; Part IV: Linear Operators: 13. Positive linear functionals; Bibliography; Index.