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Simon Henry
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Take $A= \mathcal{C}([0,1])$ and $H$ the ideal of $A$ of functions that vanish at $0$.

$H$ is a Hilbert $A$ module (as any ideal, with the natural multiplication of $A$ and the scalar product $(x,y)=x^*y$ of $xy^*$ depending on if you are talking of right or left modules) the inclusion of $H$ into $A$ is a continuous $A$ linear map and it has no adjoint.

Indeed an adjoint would be a map $p$ from $A$ to $H$ such that for all $y$ in $H$ and $x$ in $A$, $y^* p(x) = y^*x$ hence $p(1)$ would be an element of $H$ which is a unit for the ideal $H$, that does not exists.

Simon Henry
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