Topological algebras of rapidly decreasing matrices and generalizations

Abstract

It is a well-known fact in K-theory that the rapidly decreasing matrices of countable size form an associative topological algebra whose set of quasi-invertible elements is open, and such that the quasi-inversion map is continuous. We generalize these conclusions to further algebras of weighted matrices with entries in a Banach algebra.

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