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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Let A be a uniform algebra with maximal ideal space M and Shilov boundary Σ; see (8), (18) or (21) for the basic definitions. If Σ is different from M, there is often analytic structure in M/Σ. However this is not always the case, as is shown by the classical example of Stolzenberg in (16). Hence much of the considerable amount of research on this topic has been devoted to finding conditions which ensure the presence of analytic structure in M/Σ One particularly fruitful line of development has been concerned with one-dimensional analytic structure; in particular we have in mind the classical theorem of Bishop (see (2), chapter 11) and the more recent result of Aupetit and Wermer(2).