Gelfand transform
= Gelfand transform
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For a commutative Banach algebra $A$, the Gelfand transform sends $a\in A$ to the continuous function $\widehat a(\varphi)=\varphi(a)$ on its <character space of an algebra>. It is a contractive unital algebra homomorphism into $C(\Phi_A)$.