Derivations on Jordan-Banach algebras
Volume 118 / 1996
Studia Mathematica 118 (1996), 205-229
DOI: 10.4064/sm-118-3-205-229
Abstract
We establish that all derivations on a semisimple Jordan-Banach algebra are automatically continuous. By showing that "almost all" primitive ideals in the algebra are invariant under a given derivation, the general case is reduced to that of primitive Jordan-Banach algebras.