Hi!

While studying C-algebras I found 2 different definitions for non degenerate representations (-homomorphisms $\pi:\mathcal{A} \rightarrow B(\mathcal{h})$ where $\mathcal{A}$ is a C*-algebra and $B(\mathcal{h})$ is the space of bounded linear operators on some Hilbert space $\mathcal{h}$):

1. For every non-zero $\xi \in \mathcal{h}$ there exists $a \in \mathcal{A}$ such that $\pi(a)\xi \neq 0$;

2. The set $\{\pi(a)\xi \quad a \in \mathcal{A}, \xi \in \mathcal{h}\}$ is dense in $\mathcal{h}$.

Are they equivalent?

Thanks, Alessandro