Finite projections in multiplier algebras (Q5948868)

The paper under review deals with finiteness of projections in the multiplier algebra of a \(\sigma\)-unital \(C^\ast\)-algebra of real rank zero and stable rank one. Especially, it is shown that for a projection \(P\) in the multiplier algebra \(M(A)\) of a \(\sigma\)-unital, nonunital, simple \(C^\ast\)-algebra of real rank zero and stable rank one the following conditions are equivalent: (1) \(P\) is properly infinite. (2) \(P\) is infinite. (3) There exists a nonzero projection \(p\in A\) such that \(n\cdot p{\preceq} P\) for all \(n\in N\). The results are applied to characterization of existence of orthogonal finite projections with infinite sum. It is proved that the multiplier algebra \(M(A\otimes K)\) of the stabilization of an algebra \(A\), where \(A\) is a unital, simple, nonelementary algebra of real rank zero and stable rank one with \(V(A)\) strictly unperforated, admits finite projections \(P, Q\) such that \(P\oplus Q\) is infinite, if and only if, the state space of \(V(A)\) contains at least one element. This result enables to construct both unital and nonunital simple AF algebra such that \(M(A\otimes K)\) contains a projection \(P\) such that both \(P\) and \(1_{M(A\otimes K)}-P\) are finite, but \(1_{M(A\otimes K)} \sim 2\cdot 1_{M(A\otimes K)}\).