This is an announcement for the paper "Maximal ideals in commutative Banach algebras" by H. Garth Dales.

Abstract: We show that each maximal ideal in a commutative Banach algebra has codimension 1.

Archive classification: math.FA math.RA

Submitted from: t.kania@lancaster.ac.uk

The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL

http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1408.3815

or

http://arXiv.org/abs/1408.3815