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Constructive Gelfand duality for non-unital commutative C*-algebras

Category Theory 2015-02-04 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We prove constructive versions of various usual results related to the Gelfand duality. Namely, that the constructive Gelfand duality extend to a duality between commutative nonunital C*-algebras and locally compact completely regular locales, that ideals of a commutative C*-algebras are in order preserving bijection with the open sublocales of its spectrum, and a purely constructive result saying that a commutative C*-algebra has a continuous norm if and only its spectrum is open. We also extend all these results to the case of localic C*-algebras. In order to do so we develop the notion of one point compactification of a locally compact regular locale and of unitarization of a C*-algebra in a constructive framework.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2009,
  title  = {Constructive Gelfand duality for non-unital commutative C*-algebras},
  author = {Simon Henry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2009},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages

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