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Gelfand-Naimark from the category-theoretic point of view
I was thinking about the Gelfand-Naimark theorem asserting the isometric * isomorphism between a commutative $C^*$-algebra (with unit) $\mathcal{A}$ and the $C^*$ -algebra of continuous complex-valued ...
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Takesaki's duality in representation theory of $C^*$-algebras
In M.Takesaki's 1967 article titled A Duality in the Representation Theory of C-Algebras*, admissible operator fields are defined in order to generalize Gelfand transform to a non-abelian setting.
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Gelfand's transform for noncommutative $C^*$-algebras
Please excuse me if this is well-known, I am not very familiar with the general theory of $C^*$-algebras.
Let $A$ be a unital separable liminal $C^*$-algebra (in the case I am interested in, ...
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Continuous fields of Hilbert spaces arising from representations of abelian C*-algebras
This is a followup to a previous question [1] on MO.
Let $X$ be a second-countable, locally compact, Hausdorff space, and let $\mathscr H =\{H_x\}_{x\in X}$, be a
measurable field of Hilbert spaces ...
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General construction of enveloping C*-algebra, left/right-regular representation, etc
In a number of contexts (e.g. groups, crossed products, groupoids, Fell bundles) there are similar constructions of enveloping C*-algebras and left/right-regular representations that incorporate ...
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Enveloping $C^*$-algebra
Consider a finite dimensional $C^*$-algebra $\cal{A}$. Is there any enveloping $C^*$-algebra $\cal{C^*(G)}$ such that $\cal{A}\cong C^*(G)$ for some locally compact group $\cal{G}$?
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Why is the ker-hull-topology on $Irr(A)$ is the discrete topology?
Let $A$ be a C$^*$-algebra. Let $Irr(A)=\{[\pi]: \pi$ is an irreducible representation of A}, here is $\rho\in [\pi]$ if there is an unitary operator $V:H_{\pi}\to H_{\rho}$ such that $V\pi(a)=\rho(a)...
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What is $\hat{A}=\{[\pi]:\pi$ is a irreducible representation of $A$} ( $A$ is a $C^*$-algebra)?
Let $A=\{f:[0,1]\to M_2(\mathbb{C}): $f continuous and $ f(0)=\begin{pmatrix} f_{11}(0) & 0 \\ 0 & f_{22}(0) \end{pmatrix}\}$ be a $C^*$-algebra with pointwise multiplication, involutions and ...
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