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Relations and trails in lattices of projections in W*-algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

Edward Kissin*
Affiliation:
STORM, School of Computing and Digital Media, London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB, UK (e.kissin@londonmet.ac.uk)

Abstract

This paper concerns HH-relations in the lattices P(M) of all projections of W*-algebras M. If M is a finite algebra, all these relations are generated by trails in P(M). If M is an infinite countably decomposable factor, they are either generated by trails or associated with them.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2019 

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