Simple nuclear C∗-algebras not isomorphic to their opposites

Ilijas Farah; Ilan Hirshberg

doi:10.1073/pnas.1619936114

Simple nuclear C∗-algebras not isomorphic to their opposites

Ilijas Farah, Ilan Hirshberg

Department of Mathematics

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Abstract

We show that it is consistent with Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC) that there is a simple nuclear nonseparable C-algebra, which is not isomorphic to its opposite algebra. We can furthermore guarantee that this example is an inductive limit of unital copies of the Cuntz algebra O2 or of the canonical anticommutation relations (CAR) algebra.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6244-6249
Number of pages	6
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	114
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619936114
State	Published - 13 Jun 2017

Keywords

CC∗-algebras
Glimm dichotomy
Jensen's diamond
Naimark's problem
Opposite algebra

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