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On Open Projections of GCR Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Trond Digernes
Affiliation:
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Herbert Halpern
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
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Throughout this paper will denote a C*-algebra and will denote its second dual, which is identified with the enveloping von Neumann algebra of . A projection E in is said to be open if it supports a left ideal in , that is, if E = - for some left ideal in . Here the bar - means the stong closure. When has a unit, this definition coincides with the definition of Akemann [1, Definition II. 1]. In the sequel, we shall solely be concerned with two-sided ideals, and consequently central projections [4, I, § 3, Corollary 3 of Theorem 2]. Our aim is to show that is CCR if and only if the open central projections are strongly dense in the set of central projections on .

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1972

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