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Semicontinuity and Multipliers of C*-Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Lawrence G. Brown
Lawrence G. Brown*
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Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana
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In [5] C. Akemann and G. Pedersen defined four concepts of semicontinuity for elements of A**, the enveloping W*-algebra of a C*-algebra A. For three of these the associated classes of lower semicontinuous elements are , and (notation explained in Section 2), and we will call these the classes of strongly lsc, middle lsc, and weakly lsc elements, respectively. There are three corresponding concepts of continuity: The strongly continuous elements are the elements of A itself, the middle continuous elements are the multipliers of A, and the weakly continuous elements are the quasi-multipliers of A. It is natural to ask the following questions, each of which is three-fold.

(Q1) Is every lsc element the limit of a monotone increasing net of continuous elements?

(Q2) Is every positive lsc element the limit of an increasing net of positive continuous elements?

(Q3) If h ≧ k, where h is lsc and k is usc, does there exist a continuous x such that h ≧ x ≧ k?

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1988 , pp. 865 - 988
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1988

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