Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yüzüncü Yil University, 65080, Van, Turkey
Abstract:
Let be a contraction on a Banach space and the Banach algebra generated by . Let be the unitary spectrum (i.e., the intersection of with the unit circle) of . We prove the following theorem of Katznelson-Tzafriri type: If is at most countable, then the Gelfand transform of vanishes on if and only if