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From: Miles Gould <miles@assyrian.org.uk>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: C*-algebras
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 16:34:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HivON-0003AG-ET@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:27:58PM +0200, Bas Spitters wrote:
> It seems hard to find references to a categorical treatment of
> C*-algebras. Concretely, there are several tensor products on
> C*-algebras. Which one is `the right one' from a categorical perspective?

Jeff Egger gave a talk on some of these ideas at the Nice PSSL - I'm
somewhat surprised he hasn't replied to this thread. IIRC, the category
of operator algebras is an involutive monoidal category with respect to
one or other of the tensor products, and C*-algebras are exactly the
involutive monoids w.r.t. this tensor product. Can't remember which one
it was, though.

Miles




             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 15:34 Miles Gould [this message]
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2007-05-02 17:03 C*-algebras Jeff Egger
2007-04-30 20:54 C*-algebras John Baez
2007-04-29  4:30 C*-algebras Gabor Lukacs
2007-04-29  3:26 C*-algebras Yemon Choi
2007-04-28 20:27 C*-algebras Bas Spitters

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