Solutions to some exercises in Murphy’s C*-algebra and Operator Theory

Proof. (a)

(b)Let , then is a closed ideal in . By , . For all , so , hence and thus . Therefore, .

(c) is a unitary is equal to is a isomorphism in the sense is a surjection which preserves inner product. Denote by , then ;

thus is a unitary.

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Proof. For all positive linear functional on , is a positive linear functional on and thus bounded, i.e. for some positive constant .

Every bounded linear functional on is sum of 4 positive linear functionals on by Jordan Decomposition, thus for all for some positive constant . Hence for some positive constant by the Principle of Uniform Boundedness, i.e. is bounded. ◻

Proof. (a) If is invertible, then , thus is strictly positive.

Conversely, if is strictly positive, then . Since the set of all invertible elements is open, . Hence there exists some such that is invertible, thus is invertible.

(b)If is strictly positive in , that is , then there exists a sequence in such that Hence Therefore, and .

Conversely, if , then for all then there exists a sequence in such that , hence Therefore, every rank-one projection belongs to . Since all the rank-one projections is the total subset of , .

(c)Suppose is a positive functional such that , then so Hence for all , Therefore, for . ◻

Proof. Suppose is a basis for , such taht for all . and a bounded net in converges strongly to an operator . For every , there exists a finite subset of such that and there exists such that Therefore, for some constant . Hence . ◻

Proof. (1) Suppose and , then and , so .Hence