Commutator ideals and semicommutator ideals
of Toeplitz operators associated with flows II
Authors:
Paul S. Muhly and Jingbo Xia
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 3313-3319
MSC (1991):
Primary 47B35, 47B47, 47C15.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03972-5
MathSciNet review:
1402876
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Abstract: We prove that for a flow with at most one fixed point, the commutator ideal and the semicommutator ideal of the associated Toeplitz algebra coincide. We further show that the situation becomes much more complicated for flows with at least two fixed points.
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Additional Information
Paul S. Muhly
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Email:
muhly@math.uiowa.edu
Jingbo Xia
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214
Email:
JXMTH@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03972-5
Received by editor(s):
June 12, 1996
Additional Notes:
This research was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Communicated by:
Palle E. T. Jorgensen
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1997
American Mathematical Society