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On Kadison's condition for extreme points of the unit ball in a B*-algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Bertram Yood
Bertram Yood
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University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
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Let B be a complex Banach algebra with an identity 1 and an involution x→x*. Kadison (1) has shown that, if B is a B*-algebra, [the set of extreme points of its unit ball coincides with the set of elements x of B for which

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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , June 1969 , pp. 245 - 250
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1969

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