Dr Joel Feinstein's talk at Banach Algebras 2011, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
He discussed joint work with Herb Kamowitz on compact, power compact, quasicompact and Riesz endomorphisms of commutative Banach algebras, along with some background, examples, and questions.

iPod version - Endomorphisms of commutative semiprime Banach algebras - Dr Joel Feinstein

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