On the Dixmier property of simple C*-algebras
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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A unital C*-algebra is said to satisfy the Dixmier property if for each element x in the closed convex hull of all elements of the form u*xu, u being a unitary in , intersects the centre of ((2), 2·7). The von Neumann algebras and also some other classes of C*-algebras are known to satisfy the Dixmier property (cf. (2), (3), (4), (6)). If is a simple C*-algebra which satisfies the Dixmier property then has at most one tracial state. In (3) Archbold raised the question whether there exists a unital simple C*-algebra which has at most one tracial state without satisfying the Dixmier property. In the present note we characterize the unital simple C*-algebras with at most one tracial state in terms of a condition which is similar to the Dixmier property, but is in fact formally weaker in the framework of simple C*-algebras. This characterization relies on the method used by Pedersen in (5) in order to show that for a unital simple C*-algebra which has at most one tracial state and at least one non-trivial projection the linear span of all projections in is dense in As an application we characterize those unital simple C*-algebras with a unique tracial state which satisfy the Dixmier property.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 75 - 78
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1982
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