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Reference needed for: every idempotent in a C*-algebra is similar to a hermitian one

The result stated in the title is thoroughly standard - or that's the impression I got. I seem to remember seeing it stated somewhere in a book I was reading in the library, and then reverse-...
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Restricting a function defined on an étale groupoid to an isotropy group

Let $\mathcal G$ be an étale groupoid, let $x$ be a point in the unit space of $\mathcal G$, and let $\mathcal G(x)$ be the isotropy group of $x$. If $f$ is a continuous, complex valued, compactly ...
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