An order theoretic characterization of spin factors

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Abstract: The famous Koecher-Vinberg theorem characterizes the Euclidean Jordan algebras among the finite dimensional order unit spaces as the ones that have a symmetric cone. Recently Walsh gave an alternative characterization of the Euclidean Jordan algebras. He showed that the Euclidean Jordan algebras correspond to the finite dimensional order unit spaces (V,C,u) for which there exists a bijective map gcolonCcircoCcirc with the property that g is antihomogeneous, i.e., g(lambdax)=lambda1g(x) for all lambda>0 and xinCcirc, and g is an order-antimorphism, i.e., xleqCy if and only if g(y)leqCg(x). In this paper we make a first step towards extending this order theoretic characterization to infinite dimensional JB-algebras. We show that if (V,C,u) is a complete order unit space with a strictly convex cone and dimVgeq3, then there exists a bijective antihomogeneous order-antimorphism gcolonCcircoCcirc if and only if (V,C,u) is a spin factor.









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