φ-contractibility of some classes of Banach function algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we study ?-contractibility of natural Banach function algebras on a compact Hausdorff space. As a consequence, we characterize ?-contractibility of the Lipschitz algebra Lip(X,d?), for a compact metric space (X,d). We also characterize ?-contractibility of certain subalgebras of Lipschitz functions including rational Lipschitz algebras, analytic Lipschitz algebras and differentiable Lipschitz algebras.