Trace and determinant in Banach algebras
Volume 121 / 1996
Studia Mathematica 121 (1996), 115-136
DOI: 10.4064/sm-121-2-115-136
Abstract
We show that the trace and the determinant on a semisimple Banach algebra can be defined in a purely spectral and analytic way and then we obtain many consequences from these new definitions.