The structure of algebraic Baer ^*-algebras

DOI10.2140/PJM.2022.316.431MaRDI QIDQ6372973arXivFDO

Authors Zsolt Szücs, Balázs Takács

Publication date 16 July 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2140/PJM.2022.316.431

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Group algebras of locally compact groups (22D15) Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46L99)

arXiv classification

math.OAmath.RA

Abstract: The purpose of this note is to describe when a general complex algebraic ${}^{\ast }$-algebra is pre-$C^{\ast }$-normed, and to investigate their structure when the ${}^{\ast }$-algebras are Baer ${}^{\ast }$-rings in addition to algebraicity. As a main result we prove the following theorem for complex algebraic Baer ${}^{\ast }$-algebras: every ${}^{\ast }$-algebra of this kind can be decomposed as a direct sum $MoplusB$, where $M$ is a finite dimensional Baer ${}^{\ast }$-algebra and $B$ is a commutative algebraic Baer ${}^{\ast }$-algebra. The summand $M$ is ${}^{\ast }$-isomorphic to a finite direct sum of full complex matrix algebras of size at least $2imes2$. The commutative summand $B$ is ${}^{\ast }$-isomorphic to the linear span of the characteristic functions of the clopen sets in a Stonean topological space. As an application we show that a group $G$ is finite exactly when the complex group algebra $mathbbC[G]$ is an algebraic Baer ${}^{\ast }$-algebra.

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