Boundaries for Gelfand transform images of Banach algebras of holomorphic functions

Abstract

In this paper, we study boundaries for the Gelfand transform image of infinite dimensional analogues of the classical disk algebras. More precisely, given a certain Banach algebra $\mathcal{A}$ of bounded holomorphic functions on the open unit ball $B_X$ of a complex Banach space $X$, we show that the Shilov boundary for the Gelfand transform image of $\mathcal{A}$ can be explicitly described for a large class of Banach spaces. Some possible application of our result to the famous Corona theorem is also briefly discussed.