Monotone closures of commutative 𝐶*-algebras

Monotone closures of commutative $C^ *$-algebras
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 105 (1989), 683-685 Request permission

We show by an example that an analogue of Pedersen’s up-down-up theorem does not hold for monotone complete ${C^*}$-algebras.

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