Spectrum preserving linear mappings in Banach algebras
Volume 109 / 1994
                    
                    
                        Studia Mathematica 109 (1994), 91-100                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/sm-109-1-91-100                    
                                    
                                                Abstract
Let A and B be two unitary Banach algebras. We study linear mappings from A into B which preserve the polynomially convex hull of the spectrum. In particular, we give conditions under which such surjective linear mappings are Jordan morphisms.