Homotopy of projections and factorization in the unitary group of certain C*-algebras.
This article summarizes a series of lectures delivered at the Mathematics Department of the University of Leipzig, Germany, in April 1991, which were to overview techniques for solving operator equations on C*-algebras connected with methods developed in a Spanish-German research project on "Structure and Applications of C*-Algebras of Quotients" (SACQ). One of the researchers in this project was Professor Pere Menal until his unexpected death this April. To his memory this paper shall be dedicated....
The paper gives new integral representations of the -Drazin inverse of an element of a -algebra that require no restriction on the spectrum of . The representations involve powers of and of its adjoint.
We present a way of thinking of exponential farnilies as geodesic surfaces in the class of positive functions considered as a (multiplicative) sub-group G+ of the group G of all invertible elements in the algebra A of all complex bounded functions defined on a measurable space. For that we have to study a natural geometry on that algebra. The class D of densities with respect to a given rneasure will happen to be representatives of equivalence classes defining a projective space in A. The natural...