Metric on the spectrum of the algebra of entire symmetric functions of bounded type on the complex L∞

Keywords:
symmetric function, spectrum of the algebraAbstract
It is known that every complex-valued homomorphism of the Fréchet algebra Hbs(L∞) of all entire symmetric functions of bounded type on the complex Banach space L∞ is a point-evaluation functional δx (defined by δx(f)=f(x) for f∈Hbs(L∞)) at some point x∈L∞. Therefore, the spectrum (the set of all continuous complex-valued homomorphisms) Mbs of the algebra Hbs(L∞) is one-to-one with the quotient set L∞/∼, where an equivalence relation "∼'' on L∞ is defined by x∼y⇔δx=δy. Consequently, Mbs can be endowed with the quotient topology. On the other hand, Mbs has a natural representation as a set of sequences which endowed with the coordinate-wise addition and the quotient topology forms an Abelian topological group. We show that the topology on Mbs is metrizable and it is induced by the metric d(ξ,η)=sup where \xi = \{\xi_n\}_{n=1}^\infty,\eta = \{\eta_n\}_{n=1}^\infty \in M_{bs}.