Generalised Gelfand Spectra of Nonabelian Unital C*-Algebras

Publication date 11 December 2012

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Presheaves and sheaves, stacks, descent conditions (category-theoretic aspects) (18F20) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: To each unital C*-algebra A we associate a presheaf Sigma^A, called the spectral presheaf of A, which can be regarded as a generalised Gelfand spectrum. We develop a categorical notion of local duality and show that there is a contravariant functor from the category of unital C*-algebras to a suitable category of presheaves containing the spectral presheaves. We clarify how much algebraic information about a C*-algebra is contained in its spectral presheaf. A nonabelian unital C*-algebra A that is neither isomorphic to C^2 nor to B(C^2) is determined by its spectral presheaf up to quasi-Jordan isomorphisms. For a particular class of unital C*-algebras, including all von Neumann algebras with no type I_2 summand, the spectral presheaf determines the Jordan structure up to isomorphisms.

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