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The Cohomology Comparison Problem for Banach Algebras
Treasury Department, Unibank AS DK-1786 V, Denmark. E-mail: riskman{at}centrum.dk
Received 23 August 1993. Revision received 18 November 1994.
For a large class of Banach algebras we solve the Cohomology Comparison Problem for the second cohomology groups, in that we prove that for all amenable strongly regular Banach function algebras A and all Banach A-bimodules E the second comparison map between continuous and algebraic cohomology is an embedding. Accepting the continuum hypothesis we show that for algebras of this kind there exist Banach A-bimodules E such that i2 is not onto.