Continuity of spectral radius and type I C^-algebras

Abstract: It is shown that the spectral radius is continuous on a

C^{*}

-algebra if and only if the

C^{*}

-algebra is type I. This answers a question of V. Shulman and Yu.~Turovskii [10]. It is shown also that the closure of nilpotents in a

C^{*}

-algebra contains an element with non-zero spectrum if and only if the

C^{*}

-algebra is not type I.

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