A non-diagonalizable pure state

Abstract: We construct a pure state on the C*-algebra

m a t h c a l B (e l l_{2})

of all bounded linear operators on

e l l_{2}

which is not diagonalizable, i.e., it is not of the form

l i m_{u} l a n g l e T (e_{k}), e_{k} a n g l e

for any orthonormal basis

(e_{k})_{k i n m a t h b b N}

of

e l l_{2}

and an ultrafilter

u

on

m a t h b b N

. This constitutes a counterexample to Anderson's conjecture without additional hypothesis and improves results of C. Akemann, N. Weaver, I. Farah and I. Smythe who constructed such states making additional set-theoretic assumptions. It follows from results of J. Anderson and the positive solution to the Kadison-Singer problem due to A. Marcus, D. Spielman, N. Srivastava that the restriction of our pure state to any atomic masa

D ((e_{k})_{k i n m a t h b b N})

of diagonal operators with respect to an orthonormal basis

(e_{k})_{k i n m a t h b b N}

is not multiplicative on

D ((e_{k})_{k i n m a t h b b N})

.

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