On the structure of simple \(C^*\)-algebras tensored with a UHF-algebra. II (Q1193923)

Let \(D\) be a simple unital \(C^*\)-algebra, let \(B\) be a UHF-algebra, and put \(A= B\otimes D\). The author shows that if \(p,q\in A\) are projections and \(\tau(p)< \tau(q)\) for all quasi-traces \(\tau\) on \(A\), then \(p\lesssim q\) (in the sense of Murray and von Neumann). A more general result involving positive operators in \(A\) is also proved. If \(D\) has finitely many extremal quasi-traces, and the projections in \(D\otimes K\) separate these, then \(A\) has real rank zero. Finally if \(D\) is stably finite, then each positive state on \(K_ 0(D)\) lifts to a quasi- trace. [For part I see ibid. 100, No. 1, 1-17 (1991; Zbl 0773.46028)].