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An order theoretic characterization of spin factors

Functional Analysis 2017-02-07 v2 Operator Algebras

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 (V,C,u)(V,C,u) for which there exists a bijective map g ⁣:CCg\colon C^\circ\to C^\circ with the property that gg is antihomogeneous, i.e., g(λx)=λ1g(x)g(\lambda x) =\lambda^{-1}g(x) for all λ>0\lambda>0 and xCx\in C^\circ, and gg is an order-antimorphism, i.e., xCyx\leq_C y if and only if g(y)Cg(x)g(y)\leq_C g(x). In this paper we make a first step towards extending this order theoretic characterization to infinite dimensional JB-algebras. We show that if (V,C,u)(V,C,u) is a complete order unit space with a strictly convex cone and dimV3\dim V\geq 3, then there exists a bijective antihomogeneous order-antimorphism g ⁣:CCg\colon C^\circ\to C^\circ if and only if (V,C,u)(V,C,u) 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}
}

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15 pages (minor revisions). To appear in Quarterly Journal of Mathematics