Uniform algebras as Banach spaces

Let A be a closed subalgebra of the complex Banach algebra C(S), containing the constant functions. We assume that one has found a probability measureμ on S and a function F from L^∞(μ) such that: 1)|F|= 1 a.e. relative to μ; 2) F _μ ε A¹; 3) F is a limit point of the unit ball of the algebra A in the topology δ(L^∞(μ), L¹(μ)). One proves in the paper that under these conditions the space A** contains a complement space, isometric to H^∞. The measure μ and the function F, satisfying the conditions l)-3) indeed exist if the maximal ideal space of the algebra A contains a non-one-point part (and it is very likely that such aμ. and F exist whenever the algebra A is not self-adjoint). Thus, the above-formulated result allows us to extend A. Pelczynski's theorem (Ref, Zh. Mat., 1975, 1B894) regarding the space H^∞ to a very broad class of uniform algebras. Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 65, pp. 80–89, 1976.