Nuclear JC-algebras and tensor products of types (Q689014)

Summary: This article is a continuation of [\textit{L. J. Bunce}, Math. Z. 180, 525- 534 (1982; Zbl 0518.46053)], to which the reader is referred for the definition and properties of the JC-tensor product of two JC-algebras. We extend the notion of nuclearity to JC-algebras and prove that postliminal JC-algebras are nuclear. In contrast with the situation which occurs for \(C^*\)-algebras, the JC-tensor product of two postliminal JC-algebras turns out, in general, to be non-postliminal and can even be antiliminal.