Thursday February 21, at 4 in Roop 103; tea at 3:45 Ms. Martha Gregg, University of Nebraska - Lincoln |
| C*-extreme maps of C(X) |
ABSTRACT: The generalized state space of a
commutative C*-algebra C(X), denoted S_H (C(X)), is the set of positive
unital maps from C(X) to the algebra B(H) of bounded linear operators
on a Hilbert space H. C*-convexity is one of several non-commutative
analogs of convexity which have been discussed in this context. We will
show that a C*-extreme point of S_H (C(X)) satisfies a certain spectral
condition on the operators in the range of the associated positive
operator-valued measure. If H is finite dimensional, D. Farenick and P.
Morenz have shown that every C*-extreme point of S_H (C(X)) is
multiplicative. However, their method is fundamentally different from
the one used here, which enables us to show that C*-extreme maps from
C(X) into K+ are multiplicative. It is then possible determine the
structure of these maps. |
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