Let $D$ be the $n$ -dimensional Lie ball and let $B\text{(S)}$ be the space of hyperfunctions on the Shilov boundary $S$ of $D$ . The aim of this paper is to give a necessary and sufficient condition on the generalized Poisson transform ${{P}_{l,\text{ }\!\!\lambda\!\!\text{ }}}f$ of an element $f$ in the space $B\text{(S)}$ for $f$ to be in ${{L}^{p}}\left( S \right)$ , $1\,<\,p\,<\,\infty $ . Namely, if $F$ is the Poisson transform of some $f\in \,B(S)$ $F\,=\,{{P}_{l,\lambda }}f$ ), then for any $l\,\in \,Z$ ) and $\lambda \,\in \,C$ such that $Re[\text{i}\lambda ] > \frac{n}{2}\,-\,1$ , we show that $f\,\in \,{{L}^{p}}\text{(}S\text{)}$ if and only if $f$ satisfies the growth condition

$${{\left\| F \right\|}_{\lambda ,p}}=\underset{0\le r<1}{\mathop{\sup }}\,{{\left( 1\,-\,{{r}^{2}} \right)}^{\operatorname{Re}\left[ \text{i }\lambda \text{ } \right]-\frac{n}{2}+l}}{{\left[ \,\int_{s}{{{\left| F\left( ru \right) \right|}^{p}}du} \right]}^{\frac{1}{p}}}<\,+\infty $$

Extreme points of positive functionals and spectral states on real commutative Banach algebras are investigated and characterized as multiplicative functionals extending the well-known results from complex to real Banach algebras. As an application a new and short proof of the existence of the Shilov boundary of a real commutative Banach algebra with nonempty maximal ideal space is given.

Let Un be the unit polydisc in Cn and let Tn be its distinguished boundary. It is shown that a function f ∈ H∞(Un) is inner if and only if ∣f(Φ)∣ = 1 for all Φ in the maximal ideal space of L∞(Tn). This generalizes a result of Csordas.