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Limits of pure states

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

R. J. Archbold
R. J. Archbold
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Department of Mathematics, The Edward Wright Building, Dunbar Street, Aberdeen AB9 2TY
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In [7, Section 5], Glimm showed that if φ and ψ are inequivalent pure states of a liminal C*-algebra A such that the Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) representations πφ and πψ cannot be separated by disjoint open subsets of the spectrum  then ½ (φ+ψ) is a weak*-limit of pure states. We extend this to arbitrary C*-algebras (and more general convex combinations) by means of what we hope will be regarded as a transparent proof based on the notion of transition probabilities. As an application, we show that if J is a proper primal ideal of a separable C*-algebra A then there exists a state φ in (the pure state space) such that J=ker πφ (Theorem 3). The significance of this is discussed below after the introduction of further notation and terminology.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 249 - 254
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1989

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