An order theoretic characterization of spin factors
Abstract
The famous Koecher-Vinberg theorem characterizes the Euclidean Jordan algebras among the finite dimensional order unit spaces as the ones that have a symmetric cone. Recently Walsh gave an alternative characterization of the Euclidean Jordan algebras. He showed that the Euclidean Jordan algebras correspond to the finite dimensional order unit spaces for which there exists a bijective map with the property that is antihomogeneous, i.e., for all and , and is an order-antimorphism, i.e., if and only if . In this paper we make a first step towards extending this order theoretic characterization to infinite dimensional JB-algebras. We show that if is a complete order unit space with a strictly convex cone and , then there exists a bijective antihomogeneous order-antimorphism if and only if is a spin factor.
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@article{arxiv.1609.08304,
title = {An order theoretic characterization of spin factors},
author = {Bas Lemmens and Mark Roelands and Hent van Imhoff},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08304},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
15 pages (minor revisions). To appear in Quarterly Journal of Mathematics