Finite sums of commutators in C * -algebras
Fack, Thierry
Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 32 (1982), p. 129-137 / Harvested from Numdam
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Nous montrons que, pour certaines C * -algèbres, le noyau de toutes les traces finies est engendré par des sommes finies de commutateurs.

We prove that for many C * -algebras, the null space of all finite traces is spanned by finite sums of commutators.

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Fack, Thierry. Finite sums of commutators in $C^*$-algebras. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 32 (1982) pp. 129-137. doi : 10.5802/aif.863. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIF_1982__32_1_129_0/

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