The minimal primal ideal space and AF-algebras (Q808391)

The author characterizes primal ideals of an AF-algebra A (this is a \(C^*\)-algebra which is an inductive limit of finite dimensional \(C^*\)-algebras) in terms of a Bratelli diagram of A. The space of minimal primal ideals is a zero-dimensional subspace of the real line. As an application this is used to prove, that among the compact subsets of a one-dimensional metrizable topological manifold exactly the zero- dimensional compact subsets may occur as the Gelfand space of the center of a unital liminal AF-algebra.