Random matrices and -theory for exact -algebras.
We generalize a result of Choi and Effros on the range of a contractive completely positive projection in a C*-algebra to the case when this projection is only strongly positive using, moreover, an elementary argument instead of a 2×2-matrix technique.
Separately σ-additive and separately finitely additive complex functions on the Cartesian product of two algebras of sets are represented in terms of spectral measures and their finitely additive counterparts. Applications of the techniques include a bounded joint convergence theorem for bimeasure integration, characterizations of positive-definite bimeasures, and a theorem on decomposing a bimeasure into a linear combination of positive-definite ones.
Suppose B is a unital algebra which is an algebraic product of full matrix algebras over an index set X. A bijection is set up between the equivalence classes of irreducible representations of B as operators on a Banach space and the σ-complete ultrafilters on X (Theorem 2.6). Therefore, if X has less than measurable cardinality (e.g. accessible), the equivalence classes of the irreducible representations of B are labeled by points of X, and all representations of B are described (Theorem 3.3).