Characterizations of categories of commutative C^*-subalgebras

DOI10.1007/S00220-014-2088-8zbMATH Open1332.46050arXiv1106.5942OpenAlexW3103330234MaRDI QIDQ398740FDOQ398740

Authors: Chris Heunen 

Publication date: 15 August 2014

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We aim to characterize the category of injective *-homomorphisms between commutative C*-subalgebras of a given C*-algebra A. We reduce this problem to finding a weakly terminal commutative subalgebra of A, and solve the latter for various C*-algebras, including all commutative ones and all type I von Neumann algebras. This addresses a natural generalization of the Mackey-Piron programme: which lattices are those of closed subspaces of Hilbert space? We also discuss the way this categorified generalization differs from the original question.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5942

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zbMATH Keywords

injective \(\ast\)-homomorphismsweakly terminal commutative subalgebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Categories, functors in functional analysis (46M15)

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