On the Similarity of Operator Algebras to C*-Algebras
This is an expository thesis which addresses the requirements for an operator algebra to be similar to a <em>C</em>*-algebra. It has been conjectured that this similarity condition is equivalent to either amenability or total reductivity; however, the problem has only been solved for...
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| Language: | en |
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University of Waterloo
2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2932 |