Properties of derivations on some convolution algebras

Abstract

For all the convolution algebras $L^1[0,1),L_{\text{loc}}^1$ and $A(\omega )={\bigcap }_n{L}^1({\omega }_n)$, the derivations are of the form $D_{\mu }f=Xf\ast \mu$ for suitable measures $\mu$, where $(Xf)(t)=tf(t)$. We describe the (weakly) compact as well as the (weakly) Montel derivations on these algebras in terms of properties of the measure $\mu$. Moreover, for all these algebras we show that the extension of $D_{\mu }$ to a natural dual space is weak-star continuous.

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