Self-adjointness in unitary isotopes of \(JB^*\)-algebras (Q2431756)

Let \(u\) be a unitary element of a \(JB^*\)-algebra \(J\). Then the unitary isotope \(J^{[u]}\) of \(J\) is a \(JB^*\)-algebra having \(u\) as its unit, the original norm of \(J\), and the involution \(*_u\) given by \(x^{*_u} = \{ u x^* u\}\). In the paper under review, the author investigates certain links between the elements of the unit ball of a \(JB^*\)-algebra \(J\) which are self-adjoint in some unitary isotope \(J^{[u]}\), and those elements which are the average of two unitaries. (Both \(J\) and \(J^{[u]}\) have the same unitary elements.)