Banach algebras generated by N idempotents and applications

It is well known that for Banach algebras generated by two idempotents and the identity all irreducible representations are of order not greater than two. These representations have been described completely and have found important applications to symbol theory. It is also well known that without additional restrictions on the idempotents these results do not admit a natural generalization to algebras generated by more than two idempotents and the identity. In this paper we describe all irreducible representations of Banach algebras generated by N idempotents which satisfy some additional relations. These representations are of order not greater than N and allow us to construct a symbol theory with applications to singular integral operators.