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Publications and source records attributed to Swarup N. Ghosh.
It is shown that a uniform algebra can have a nonzero bounded point derivation while having no nontrivial Gleason parts. Conversely, a uniform algebra can have a nontrivial Gleason part while having no nonzero, even possibly unbounded, point derivations.
The existence of a nontrivial polynomially convex hull with every point a one-point Gleason part and with no nonzero bounded point derivations is established. This strengthens the \hbox{celebrated} result of Stolzenberg that there exists a nontrivial polynomially convex hull that contains no analytic discs. A doubly generated counterexample to the peak point conjecture is also presented.