Annihilators in JB-algebras

Battaglia, M. (1990). Annihilators in JB-algebras. Mathematical proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 108(2), pp. 317-323. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S0305004100069188

Preview

Text S0305004100069188.pdf - Published Version Available under License Publisher holds Copyright. Download (423kB) | Preview

Orthogonality is defined for all elements in a JB-algebra and Topping's results on annihilators in JW-algebras are generalized to the context of JB- and JBW-algebras. A pair (a, b) of elements in a JB-algebra A is said to be orthogonal provided that a2 ∘ b equals zero. It is shown that this relation is symmetric. The annihilator S⊥ of a subset S of A is defined to be the set of elements a in A such that, for all elements s in S, the pair (s, a) is orthogonal. It is shown that the annihilators are closed quadratic ideals and, if A is a JBW-algebra, a subset I of A is a w*-closed quadratic ideal if and only if I coincides with its biannihilator I⊥⊥. Moreover, in a JBW-algebra A the formation of the annihilator of a w*-closed quadratic ideal is an orthocomplementation on the complete lattice of w*-closed quadratic ideals which makes it into a complete orthomodular lattice. Further results establish a connection between ideals, central idempotents and annihilators in JBW-algebras.

Interest & Impact

Downloads

61 since deposited on 21 Jul 2020
49 in the past 12 months

Citations

5 Citations in Web of Science ®
6 Citations in Scopus

Search

in Google Scholar™

Services

Actions (login required)

Edit item

Actions (login required)

Edit item