The Shilov boundary and the Gelfand spectrum of algebras of generalized analytic functions

Abstract

Let $S$ be a discrete abelian semigroup with unit and concellations and $\widehat {S}$ the semigroup of semicharacters of $S$. We shaw that the strong boundary and the Shilov boundary of the algebra of generalized analytic functions defined on $\widehat {S}$ are unions of some maximal subgroups of $\widehat {S}$. We shaw also that the both boundaries coincide with the character group of $S$ if $S$ does not contain nontrivial simple ideals. In the last case the Gelfand spectrum of the algebra under consideration is calculated.