Radical Banach Algebras and Automatic Continuity [electronic resource] : Proceedings of a Conference Held at California State University, Long Beach, July 17–31, 1981 / edited by John M. Bachar, William G. Bade, Philip C. Curtis, H. Garth Dales, Marc P. Thomas.

Elements for a classification of commutative radical Banach algebras -- Quasimultipliers, representations of H?, and the closed ideal problem for communtative Banach algebras -- The theory of Cohen elements -- Convolution algebras on the real line -- Bilaterally translation-invariant subspaces of weighted Lp(R) -- A solution of the translation-invariant subspace problem for weighted Lp on R, ? or ?+ -- Multipliers of weighted l 1-algebras -- Ideal structure in radical sequence algebras -- Approximation in the radical algebra l1(?n) when {?n} is star-shaped -- A class of unicellular shifts which contains non-strictly cyclic shifts -- An inequality involving product measures -- The norms of powers of functions in the volterra algebra -- Weighted convolution algebras as analogues of Banach algebras of power series -- Commutative Banach algebras with power-series generators -- Weighted discrete convolution algebras -- Some radical quotients in harmonic analysis -- A Banach algebra related to the disk algebra -- Automatic continuity conditions for a linear mapping from a banach algebra onto a semi-simple Banach algebra -- The uniqueness of norm problem in Banach algebras with finite dimensional radical -- Derivations in commutative Banach algebras -- Automatic continuity of homomorphisms into Banach algebras -- On the intersection of the principal ideals generated by powers in a Banach algebra -- Automatic continuity for operators of local type -- Continuity properties of Ck-homomorphisms -- Continuity of homomorphisms from C*-algebras and other Banach algebras -- Cofinite ideals in Banach algebras, and finite-dimensional representations of group algebras -- The continuity of derivations from group algebras and factorization in cofinite ideals -- Some problems and results on translation — Invariant linear forms -- On the uniqueness of Riemann integration -- The continuity of traces -- V. open questions.