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On Voiculescu's double commutant theorem
Author(s):
C.
A.
Berger;
L.
A.
Coburn
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
124
(1996),
3453-3457.
MSC (1991):
Primary 47L05
MathSciNet review:
1346963
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For a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space , we consider the full algebra of bounded linear transformations and the unique non-trivial norm-closed two-sided ideal of compact operators . We also consider the quotient -algebra with quotient map 
For any -subalgebra of , the relative commutant is given by for all in . It was shown by D. Voiculescu that, for any separable unital -subalgebra of , 
In this note, we exhibit a non-separable unital -subalgebra of for which (VDCT) fails.
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C.
A.
Berger
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York 10468
L.
A.
Coburn
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03531-9
PII:
S 0002-9939(96)03531-9
Received by editor(s):
May 30, 1995
Additional Notes:
This research was partially supported by NSF grant 9500716
Communicated by:
Palle E. T. Jorgensen
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1996,
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