# Additive jointly separating maps and ring homomorphisms

## TL;DR

This paper characterizes additive jointly separating maps and ring homomorphisms between spaces of vector-valued continuous functions, generalizing recent results and providing new insights into their structure and properties.

## Contribution

It offers a partial description of additive jointly separating maps and characterizes continuous ring homomorphisms between Banach algebras of vector-valued functions.

## Key findings

- Partial description of additive jointly separating maps
- Characterization of continuous ring homomorphisms
- Generalizations of recent unital homomorphism results

## Abstract

Let $X$ and $Y$ be compact Hausdorff spaces, $E$ and $F$ be real or complex normed spaces and $A(X,E)$ be a subspace of $C(X,E)$. For a function $f\in C(X,E)$, let $\coz(f)$ be the cozero set of $f$. A pair of additive maps $S,T: A(X,E) \lo C(Y,F)$ is said to be jointly separating if $\coz(Tf)\cap \coz(Sg)=\emptyset$ whenever $\coz(f)\cap \coz(g)= \emptyset$. In this paper, first we give a partial description of additive jointly separating maps between certain spaces of vector-valued continuous functions (including spaces of vector-valued Lipschitz functions, absolutely continuous functions and continuously differentiable functions). Then we apply the results to characterize continuous ring homomorphisms between certain Banach algebras of vector-valued continuous functions. In particular, the results provide some generalizations of the recent results on unital homomorphisms between vector-valued Lipschitz algebras, with a different approach.