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Surjective isometries between real JB*-triples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2004

FRANCISCO J. FERNÁNDEZ–POLO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. e-mail: pacopolo@ugr.es, jmmoreno@ugr.es and aperalta@ugr.es
JUAN MARTÍNEZ
Affiliation:
Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. e-mail: pacopolo@ugr.es, jmmoreno@ugr.es and aperalta@ugr.es
ANTONIO M. PERALTA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. e-mail: pacopolo@ugr.es, jmmoreno@ugr.es and aperalta@ugr.es

Extract

In [19], R. Kadison proved that every surjective linear isometry $\Phi{:}\, {\C A} \to {\C B}$ between two unital C*-algebras has the form $$\Phi (x) = u T (x), \hbox{ $x\in {\C A}$,}$$ where $u$ is a unitary element in ${\C B}$ and $T$ is a Jordan *-isomorphism from${\C A}$ onto ${\C B}$. This result extends the classical Banach–Stone theorem [3, 32] obtained in the 1930s to non-abelian unital C*-algebras. A. L. Paterson and A. M. Sinclair extended Kadison's result to surjective isometries between C*-algebras by replacing the unitary element $u$ by a unitary element in the multiplier C*-algebra of the range algebra [28]. Thus, every surjective linear isometry between C*-algebras preserves the triple products as $$\J xyz \,{=}\, 2^{-1} ( x y^* z + z y^* x).$$

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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