Fixed Point Theory and Applications
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 362829, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/362829
The fixed point property of unital abelian Banach algebras
W. Fupinwong
and S. Dhompongsa
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Abstract
We give a general condition for infinite dimensional unital Abelian Banach algebras to fail the fixed point property. Examples of those algebras are given including the algebras of continuous functions on compact sets.