A NOTE ON FREE PRODUCTS

作者:Hadwin Don*; Ma Xiujuan
来源:Operators and Matrices, 2008, 2(1): 53-65.
DOI:10.7153/oam-02-03

摘要

We answer two questions raised by I. M. Singer concerning free products. We prove that in a free product of separable unital C*-algebras, states on each algebra can be simultaneously extended to a pure state on the free product. We also show that the second dual of the free product of unital C*-algebras is the von Neumann algebra free product of their second duals. We give a proof that the extreme points of the set of tracial states of a C*-algebra is the set of factor tracial states.