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On the “Third Definition” of the Topology on the Spectrum of a C*-Algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

L. Terrell Gardner
L. Terrell Gardner*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
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0. In [3], Fell introduced a topology on Rep (A,H), the collection of all non-null but possibly degenerate *-representations of the C*-algebra A on the Hilbert space H. This topology, which we will call the Fell topology, can be described by giving, as basic open neighbourhoods of π0 ∈ Rep(A, H), sets of the form

where the ai ∈ A, and the ξj ∈ H(π0), the essential space of π0 [4].

A principal result of [3, Theorem 3.1] is that if the Hilbert dimension of H is large enough to admit all irreducible representations of A, then the quotient space Irr(A, H)/∼ can be identified with the spectrum (or “dual“) Â of A, in its hull-kernel topology.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , June 1971 , pp. 445 - 450
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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