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The Similarity Degree of Some C*-algebras

Operator Algebras 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

We define the class of weakly approximately divisible unital C*-algebras and show that this class is closed under direct sums, direct limits, any tensor product with any C*-algebra, and quotients. A nuclear C*-algebra is weakly approximately divisible if and only if it has no finite-dimensional representations. We also show that Pisier's similarity degree of a weakly approximately divisible C*-algebra is at most 5.

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@article{arxiv.1210.6015,
  title  = {The Similarity Degree of Some C*-algebras},
  author = {Don Hadwin and Weihua Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6015},
  year   = {2019}
}