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The space of ideals in the minimal tensor product of C*-algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

ALDO J. LAZAR*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69778, Israel. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

For C*-algebras A1, A2 the map (I1, I2) → ker(qI1qI2) from Id′(A1) × Id′(A2) into Id′(A1minA2) is a homeomorphism onto its image which is dense in the range. Here, for a C*-algebra A, the space of all proper closed two sided ideals endowed with an adequate topology is denoted Id′(A) and qI is the quotient map of A onto A/I. This result is used to show that any continuous function on Prim(A1) × Prim(A2) with values into a T1 topological space can be extended to Prim(A1minA2). This enlarges the scope of [7, corollary 3·5] that dealt only with scalar valued functions. A new proof for a result of Archbold [3] about the space of minimal primal ideals of A1minA2 is obtained also by using the homeomorphism mentioned above. New proofs of the equivalence of the property (F) of Tomiyama for A1minA2 with certain other properties are presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2010

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