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Deformation of involution and multiplication in a C*-algebra

Operator Algebras 2014-11-04 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We investigate the deformation of involution and multiplication in a unital CC^*-algebra when its norm is fixed. Our main result is to present all multiplications and involutions on a given CC^*-algebra A\mathcal{A} under which A\mathcal{A} is still a CC^*-algebra whereas we keep the norm unchanged. For each invertible element aAa\in\mathcal{A} we also introduce an involution and a multiplication making A\mathcal{A} into a CC^*-algebra in which aa becomes a positive element. Further, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for that the center of a unital CC^*-algebra A\mathcal{A} is trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1304.8091,
  title  = {Deformation of involution and multiplication in a C*-algebra},
  author = {H. Najafi and M. S. Moslehian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.8091},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, to appear in Studia Math. (IMPAN)

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