One-Sided Projections on C*-algebras

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2002-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/math/0203070v1

Mathematics

Operator Algebras

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In [BEZ] the notion of a complete one-sided M-ideal for an operator space X was introduced as a generalization of Alfsen and Effros' notion of an M-ideal for a Banach space [AE72]. In particular, various equivalent formulations of complete one-sided M-projections were given. In this paper, some sharper equivalent formulations are given in the special situation that $X = \mathcal{A}$, a $C^*$-algebra (in which case the complete left M-projections are simply left multiplication on $\mathcal{A}$ by a fixed orthogonal projection in $\mathcal{A}$ or its multiplier algebra). The proof of the first equivalence makes use of a technique which is of interest in its own right--a way of ``solving'' multi-linear equations in von Neumann algebras. This technique is also applied to show that preduals of von Neumann algebras have no nontrivial complete one-sided M-ideals. In addition, we show that in a $C^*$-algebra, the intersection of finitely many complete one-sided M-summands need not be a complete one-sided M-summand, unlike the classical situation.

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