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Products of Decomposable Positive Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Terrance Quinn
Terrance Quinn*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3J5
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Mailing address: Department of Mathematics University College Cork City Ireland e-mail: tquinn @bureau.ucc.ie
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Abstract

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In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of factorization for bounded linear operators. We first show that many of these problems properly belong to the category of C*-algebras. With this interpretation, it becomes evident that the problem is fundamental both to the structure of operator algebras and the elements therein. In this paper we consider the direct integral algebra with separable and infinite dimensional. We generalize a theorem of Wu (1988) and characterize those decomposable operators which are products of non-negative decomposable operators. We do this by first showing that various results on operator ranges may be generalized to “measurable fields of operator ranges”.

Keywords

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1994 , pp. 854 - 871
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1994

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