A projection-less approach to Rickart Jordan structures (Q2168829)

The authors introduce weakly and weakly order Rickart \(JB^*\)-triples, and show that a \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\) is a weakly (order) Rickart \(JB^*\)-triple precisely when it is a weakly Rickart \(C^*\)-algebra. They also prove that the Pierce-2 subspace associated with any tripotent in a weakly order Rickart \(JB^*\)-triple is a Rickart \(JB^*\)-algebra in the sense of the reviewer and \textit{F. Arzikulov} [``Jordan counterparts of Rickart and Baer \({}^*\)-algebras'', Uzbek Math. J. 1, 13--33 (2016); São Paulo J. Math. Sci. 13, No. 1, 27--38 (2019; Zbl 1441.17025)]. By extending a classical property of Rickart \(C^*\)-algebras, they prove that every weakly order Rickart \(JB^*\)-triple is generated by its idempotents.