The paper is devoted to the problem of classification of extremal positive linear maps acting between 𝔅(𝒦) and 𝔅(ℋ) where 𝒦 and ℋ are Hilbert spaces. It is shown that every positive map with the property that rank ϕ(P) ≤ 1 for any one-dimensional projection P is a rank 1 preserver. This allows us to characterize all decomposable extremal maps as those which satisfy the above condition. Further, we prove that every extremal positive map which is 2-positive turns out to be automatically completely...

We investigate when a C*-algebra element generates a closed ideal, and discuss Moore-Penrose and commuting generalized inverses.

Let $\tau$ be a continuous unitary representation of the locally compact group $G$ on the Hilbert space $H_{\tau }$. Let $C_{\tau }^{*}[V{N}_{\tau }]$ be the $C^{*}[W^{*}]$ algebra generated by$$(L^1\left(G\right))\text{and}{M}_{\tau }(C_{\tau }^{*})=\left\{\phi \in V{N}_{\tau };\phi C_{\tau }^{*}+C_{\tau }^{*}\phi \subset C_{\tau }^{*}\right\}.$$The main result obtained in this paper is Theorem 1:If $G$ is $\sigma$-compact and $M_{\tau }(C_{\tau }^{*})=V{N}_{\tau }$ then supp $\tau$ is discrete and each $\pi$ in supp $\tau$ in CCR.We apply this theorem to the quasiregular representation $\tau ={\pi }_H$ and obtain among other results that $M_{{\pi }_H}(C_{{\pi }_H}^{*})=V{N}_{{\pi }_H}$ implies in many cases that $G/H$ is a compact coset space.

It is shown that every almost linear Pexider mappings $f$, $g$, $h$ from a unital $C^{*}$-algebra $𝒜$ into a unital $C^{*}$-algebra $ℬ$ are homomorphisms when $f\left(2^{n}uy\right)=f\left(2^{n}u\right)f\left(y\right)$, $g\left(2^{n}uy\right)=g\left(2^{n}u\right)g\left(y\right)$ and $h\left(2^{n}uy\right)=h\left(2^{n}u\right)h\left(y\right)$ hold for all unitaries $u\in 𝒜$, all $y\in 𝒜$, and all $n\in \mathbb{Z}$, and that every almost linear continuous Pexider mappings $f$, $g$, $h$ from a unital $C^{*}$-algebra $𝒜$ of real rank zero into a unital $C^{*}$-algebra $ℬ$ are homomorphisms when $f\left(2^{n}uy\right)=f\left(2^{n}u\right)f\left(y\right)$, $g\left(2^{n}uy\right)=g\left(2^{n}u\right)g\left(y\right)$ and $h\left(2^{n}uy\right)=h\left(2^{n}u\right)h\left(y\right)$ hold for all $u\in \{v\in 𝒜\mid v=v^{*}\text{and}v\text{is}\text{invertible}\}$, all $y\in 𝒜$ and all $n\in \mathbb{Z}$. Furthermore, we prove the Cauchy-Rassias stability of $*$-homomorphisms between unital $C^{*}$-algebras, and $ℂ$-linear...