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The Space of Tracial States on a C$^*$-Algebra

Operator Algebras 2024-09-25 v2

Abstract

We give a simple and elementary proof that the tracial state space of a unital C^*-algebra is a Choquet simplex, using the center-valued trace on a finite von Neumann algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2409.09644,
  title  = {The Space of Tracial States on a C$^*$-Algebra},
  author = {Bruce Blackadar and Mikael Rørdam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09644},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

12 pages. Two extra references added, and last section organized differently