The centre-quotient property and weak centrality for C-algebras

Robert J. Archbold, Ilja Gogic* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

We give a number of equivalent conditions (including weak centrality) for a general C∗-algebra to have the centre-quotient property. We show that every C∗-algebra A has a largest weakly central ideal Jwc(A). For an ideal I of a unital C∗-algebra A, we find a necessary and sufficient condition for a central element of A/I to lift to a central element of A. This leads to a characterisation of the set VA of elements of an arbitrary C∗-algebra A which prevent A from having the centre-quotient property. The complement CQ(A) := A \ VA always contains Z(A) + Jwc(A) (where Z(A) is the centre of A), with equality if and only if A/Jwc(A) is abelian. Otherwise, CQ(A) fails spectacularly to be a C∗-subalgebra of A.
Original languageEnglish
Article numberrnaa133
Pages (from-to)1173–1216
Number of pages44
JournalInternational Mathematics Research Notices
Volume2022
Issue number2
Early online date10 Jun 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022

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Funding
The second-named author was fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2016-06-1046.

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