It is well known that c0(Z) is amenable and so its global dimension is zero. In this paper we will investigate the cyclic and Hochschild cohomology of Banach algebra c0 (Z, ω-1) and its unitisation with coefficients in its dual space, where ω is a weight on Z which satisfies inf {ω(i)} = 0.Moreover we show that the weak homological bi-dimension of c0 (Z, ω-1) is infinity.

The notions of limits and colimits are studied in the category of C*-algebras. It is shown that limits and colimits of diagrams of C*-algebras are stable under tensor product by a fixed C*-algebra, and crossed product by a locally compact group.

Many Banach algebras A have the property that, although there are discontinuous homomorphisms from A into other Banach algebras, every homomorphism from A into another Banach algebra is automatically continuous on a dense subspace—preferably, a subalgebra—of A. Examples of such algebras are C*-algebras and the group algebras L1(G), where G is a locally compact, abelian group. In this paper, we prove analogous results for , where E is a Banach space, and . An important rôle is played by the second Hochschild cohomology group of and , respectively, with coefficients in the one-dimensional annihilator module. It vanishes in the first case and has linear dimension one in the second one.

Given two topological algebra sheaves, we seek that their tensor product be an (algebra) sheaf of the same type. We further study the latter sheaf in connection with the set of morphisms which are defined on it. As an application, we finally consider fundamental notions and results related to algebras of holomorphic functions in the framework of topological algebra sheaves.

We show that a commutative amenable Banach algebra need not be symmetric by constructing suitable examples.

Using various facts about principal bundles over a space, we give a unified treatment of several theorems about the structure of stable separable continuous-trace algebras, their automorphisms, and their K-theory. We also present a classification of real continuous-trace algebras from the same point of view.

Topological algebra bundles whose fibre (-algebras) admit functional representations constitute a category, antiequivalent with that of (topological) fibre bundles having completely regular bundle spaces and locally compact fibres.

In [7[ a functor Ext is defined in terms of C*-extensions. It is a covariant functor from the homotopy category of compact, metrizable spaces to abelian groups. Further details are given in [7, 8, 9, 11]. From [7, 14] Ext extends to a Steenrod homology theory, Ext*, which may be identified with the one associated with unitary K-theory. Since Lie groups are fundamental to K-theory (see [2, p. 24]) one might expect Ext(G) to be of interest when G is a Lie group.

The notion of duality of functors is used to study and characterize spaces satisfying the Radon-Nikodym property. A theorem of equivalences concerning the Radon-Nikodym property is proved by categorical means; the classical Dunford-Pettis theorem is then deduced using an adjointness argument. The functorial properties of integral operators, compact operators, and weakly compact operators are discussed. It is shown that as an instance of Kan extension the weakly compact operators can be expressed as a certain direct limit of ordinary hom functors. Characterizations of spaces satisfying the Radon-Nikodym property are then given in terms of the agreement of dual functors of the functors mentioned above.