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Published by the American Mathematical Society since 1950, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society is devoted to shorter research articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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A new characterization of separable GCR-algebras
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Abstract:

It is shown that a separable ${C^ \ast }$-algebra $\mathfrak {A}$ is GCR if and only if the set of central projections in its enveloping von Neumann algebra $\mathfrak {B}$ is generated, as a complete Boolean algebra, by the set of open, central projections in $\mathfrak {B}$.
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  • © Copyright 1972 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 36 (1972), 448-450
  • MSC: Primary 46L05
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1972-0310656-2
  • MathSciNet review: 0310656