A Murray-von Neumann type classification of C^-algebras

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-18494-4_24MaRDI QIDQ2801701zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chi-Keung Ng, Ngai-Ching Wong

Publication date 21 April 2016

Published in Operator Semigroups Meet Complex Analysis, Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1455

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^\ast\)-algebraopen projectionsMurray-von Neumann type classification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Classifications of (C^*)-algebras (46L35)

Abstract: We define type $mathfrakA$, type $mathfrakB$, type $mathfrakC$ as well as C*-semi-finite C*-algebras. It is shown that a von Neumann algebra is a type $mathfrakA$, type $mathfrakB$, type $mathfrakC$ or C*-semi-finite C*-algebra if and only if it is, respectively, a type I, type II, type III or semi-finite von Neumann algebra. Any type I C*-algebra is of type $mathfrakA$ (actually, type $mathfrakA$ coincides with the discreteness as defined by Peligrad and Zsido), and any type II C*-algebra (as defined by Cuntz and Pedersen) is of type $mathfrakB$. Moreover, any type $mathfrakC$ C*-algebra is of type III (in the sense of Cuntz and Pedersen). Furthermore, any purely infinite C*-algebra (in the sense of Kirchberg and Rordam) with real rank zero is of type $mathfrakC$, and any separable purely infinite C*-algebra with stable rank one is also of type $mathfrakC$. We also prove that type $mathfrakA$, type $mathfrakB$, type $mathfrakC$ and C*-semi-finiteness are stable under taking hereditary C*-subalgebras, multiplier algebras and strong Morita equivalence. Furthermore, any C*-algebra $A$ contains a largest type $mathfrakA$ closed ideal $J_{m}athfrakA$, a largest type $mathfrakB$ closed ideal $J_{m}athfrakB$, a largest type $mathfrakC$ closed ideal $J_{m}athfrakC$ as well as a largest C*-semi-finite closed ideal $J_{m}athfraksf$. Among them, we have $J_{m}athfrakA+J_{m}athfrakB$ being an essential ideal of $J_{m}athfraksf$, and $J_{m}athfrakA+J_{m}athfrakB+J_{m}athfrakC$ being an essential ideal of $A$. On the other hand, $A/J_{m}athfrakC$ is always C*-semi-finite, and if $A$ is C*-semi-finite, then $A/J_{m}athfrakB$ is of type $mathfrakA$.

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