Surjective homomorphisms from algebras of operators on long sequence spaces are automatically injective

Abstract

We study automatic injectivity of surjective algebra homomorphisms from $\mathcal{B}(X)$, the algebra of (bounded, linear) operators on $X$, to $\mathcal{B}(Y)$, where $X$ is one of the following \emph{long} sequence spaces: $c_0(\lambda )$, ${\ell }_{\infty }^c(\lambda )$, and ${\ell }_p(\lambda )$ ($1⩽p<\infty$) and $Y$ is arbitrary. \textit{En route} to the proof that these spaces do indeed enjoy such a property, we classify two-sided ideals of the algebra of operators of any of the aforementioned Banach spaces that are closed with respect to the `sequential strong operator topology'.

22 pp; to appear in Quart. J. Math. (Oxford)

References in corpus (1)

• Banach spaces for which the space of operators has $2^{\mathfrak{c}}$ closed ideals

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• The SHAI property for the operators on L^p
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