On regular ^*-algebras of bounded linear operators: a new approach towards a theory of noncommutative Boolean algebras

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Abstract: We study (von Neumann) regular ∗-subalgebras of B(H), which we call R∗-algebras. The class of R∗-algebras coincides with that of "E∗-algebras that are pre-C∗-algebras" in the sense of Z. SzH{u}cs and B. Tak'acs. We give examples, properties and questions of R∗-algebras. We observe that the class of unital commutative R∗-algebras has a canonical one-to-one correspondence with the class of Boolean algebras. This motivates the study of R∗-algebras as that of noncommutative Boolean algebras. We explain that seemingly unrelated topics of functional analysis, like AF C∗-algebras and incomplete inner product spaces, naturally arise in the investigation of R∗-algebras. We obtain a number of interesting results on R∗-algebras by applying various famous theorems in the literature.





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