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Hilbert $C^*$-modules over $\Sigma^*$-algebras

Operator Algebras 2016-09-13 v2

Abstract

A Σ\Sigma^*-algebra is a concrete CC^*-algebra that is sequentially closed in the weak operator topology. We study an appropriate class of CC^*-modules over Σ\Sigma^*-algebras analogous to the class of WW^*-modules (selfdual CC^*-modules over WW^*-algebras), and we are able to obtain Σ\Sigma^*-versions of virtually all the results in the basic theory of CC^*- and WW^*-modules. In the second half of the paper, we study modules possessing a weak sequential form of the condition of being countably generated. A particular highlight of the paper is the "Σ\Sigma^*-module completion," a Σ\Sigma^*-analogue of the selfdual completion of a CC^*-module over a WW^*-algebra, which has an elegant uniqueness condition in the countably generated case.

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@article{arxiv.1605.06521,
  title  = {Hilbert $C^*$-modules over $\Sigma^*$-algebras},
  author = {Clifford A. Bearden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06521},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

23 pages; minor revisions, corrections, and added references after referee's comments; to appear in Studia Math

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