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The similarity problem for tensor products of certain C*-algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Florin Pop
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y. 10301, United States of America, e-mail: fpop@wagner.edu
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We prove that every bounded representation of the tensor product of two C*-algebras, one of which is nuclear and contains matrices of any order, is similar to a *-representation.

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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2004

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