Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Klaus Thomsen
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 129 (2001), 1409-1417.
MSC (2000): Primary 46L80, 19K35
Posted: October 25, 2000
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Abstract: Building on the work of Kasparov we show that there always exists a trivial absorbing extension of

by $B \otimes \mathcal K$ , provided only that

and

are separable. If

is unital there is a unital trivial extension which is unitally absorbing.

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