The soft torus: A variational analysis of commutator norms

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1994.1148MaRDI QIDQ1891767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruy Exel

Publication date 14 June 1995

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/funct-an/9212004

zbMATH Keywords

fiberslocal minimum pointsdecreases the commutator normfield of \(C^*\)-algebraspair of noncommuting unitary operatorsperturbations in the normsoft tori

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87)

Abstract: The field of C*-algebras over the interval [0,2] for which the fibers are the Soft Tori is shown to be continuous. This result is applied to show that any pair of non-commuting unitary operators can be perturbed (in a weak sense) in such a way to decrease the commutator norm. Perturbations in norm are also considered and a characterization is given for pairs of unitary operators which are local minimum points for the commutator norm in the finite dimensional case.

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