nuclear C*-algebra


Definition 0.1.

A C*-algebraPlanetmathPlanetmath A is called a nuclear C*-algebra if all C*-norms on every algebraic tensor productPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath AX, of A with any other C*-algebra X, agree with, and also equal the spatial C*-norm (viz Lance, 1981). Therefore, there is a unique completion of AX to a C*-algebra , for any other C*-algebra X.

0.1 Examples of nuclear C*-algebras

  • All commutativePlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath C*-algebras and all finite-dimensional C*-algebras

  • Group C*-algebras of amenable groups

  • Crossed products of strongly amenable C*-algebras by amenable discrete groups,

  • Type 1 C*-algebras.

0.2 Exact C*-algebra

In general terms, a C*-algebra is exact if it is isomorphicPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath with a C*-subalgebra of some nuclear C*-algebra. The precise definition of an exact C*-algebra follows.

Definition 0.2.

Let Mn be a matrix space, let 𝒜 be a general operator space, and also let be a C*-algebra. A C*-algebra is exact if it is ‘finitely representable’ in Mn, that is, if for every finite dimensional subspaceMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath E in 𝒜 and quantity epsilon>0, there exists a subspace F of some Mn, and also a linear isomorphism T:EF such that the cb-norm

|T|cb|T-1|cb<1+epsilon.

0.3 Note: A counter-example

A C* -subalgebra of a nuclear C*-algebra need not be nuclear.

References

  • 1 E. C. Lance. 1981. Tensor Products and nuclear C*-algebras., in Operator Algebras and Applications, R.V. Kadison, ed., Proceed. Symp. Pure Maths., 38: 379-399, part 1.
  • 2 N. P. Landsman. 1998. “Lecture notes on C*-algebras, Hilbert C*-Modules and Quantum Mechanics”, pp. 89 http://planetmath.org/?op=getobj&from=books&id=66a graduate level preprint discussing general C*-algebras http://aux.planetmath.org/files/books/66/C*algebrae.psin Postscript format.
Title nuclear C*-algebra
Canonical name NuclearCalgebra
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Synonym C*-algebra
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