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Approximate Double Commutants and Distance Formulas

Operator Algebras 2012-10-22 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We extend work of the first author concering relative double commutants and approximate double commutants of unital subalgebras of unital C*-algebras, including metric versions involving distance estimates. We prove metric results for AH subalgebras of von Neumann algebras or AF subalgebras of primitive C*-algebras. We prove other general results, including some for nonselfadjoint commutative subalgebras, using C*-algebraic versions of the Stone-Weierstrass and Bishop-Stone-Weierstrass theorems.

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@article{arxiv.1210.5285,
  title  = {Approximate Double Commutants and Distance Formulas},
  author = {Don Hadwin and Junhao Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.5285},
  year   = {2012}
}
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