On generalisations of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem to Jordan structures

The main theorem of the thesis asserts that if B is a JB*-subtriple of a JB*triple A such that B separates oe(An U {O}, then if A or B is postliminal, A=B. The main theorem and many of the other key results of the thesis are generalisations of the results of Kaplansky (1951) and Glimm (1960) on the...

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Main Author: Sheppard, Barnaby
Published: University of Reading 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301909