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THE SIMILARITY DEGREE OF SOME
${C}^{\ast } $-ALGEBRAS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2013
Abstract
We define the class of weakly approximately divisible unital ${C}^{\ast } $-algebras and show that this class is closed under direct sums, direct limits, any tensor product with any
${C}^{\ast } $-algebra, and quotients. A nuclear
${C}^{\ast } $-algebra is weakly approximately divisible if and only if it has no finite-dimensional representations. We also show that Pisier’s similarity degree of a weakly approximately divisible
${C}^{\ast } $-algebra is at most five.
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- Copyright ©2013 Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.
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