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Mackey Borel Structure for the Quasi-Dual of a Separable C*-Algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Herbert Halpern*
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Let A be a separable C*-algebra. Two representations π and π1 of A on the Hilbert spaces H and H1, respectively are said to be quasi-equivalent (denoted by π ~ π1) if projections of HH1 on the invariant subspaces H and H1 of (ππ1)(A) have the same central support in the commutant (ππ1) (A)′ of (ππ1) (A), or equivalently, if there is an isomorphism ϕ of π(A)″ onto π1(A)″ such that ϕ(π(x)) = π(x) for all xA (cf. [5, § 5]). A representation π of A is said to be a factor representation if the center of π(A)″ consists of scalar multiples of the identity.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1974

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