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A lower bound on the homological bidimension of a non-unital C*-algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

Olaf Ermert
Olaf Ermert
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School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, England
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Let A be a C*-algebra. For each Banach A-bimodule X, the second continuous Hochschild cohomology group H2(A, X) of A with coefficients in X is defined (see [6]); there is a natural correspondence between the elements of this group and equivalence classes of singular, admissible extensions of A by X. Specifically this means that H2(A, X) ≠ {0} for some X if and only if there exists a Banach algebra B with Jacobson radical R such that R2 = {0}, R is complemented as a Banach space, and B/R ≅ A, but B has no strong Wedderburn decomposition; i.e., there is no closed subalgebra C of B such that B ≅ C © R. In turn this is equivalent to db A ≥ 2, where db A is the homological bidimension of A; i.e., the homological dimension of A#, the unitization of A, as an,A-bimodule [6, III. 5.15]. This paper is concerned with the following basic question, which was posed in [7].

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Research Article
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Glasgow Mathematical Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , September 1998 , pp. 435 - 444
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1998

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