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Spectra of derivations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. Kyle
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England

Extract

This paper follows (4) in a quantitative study of derivations. The object is to investigate the properties of the spectrum of an inner derivation. In particular, we shall be interested in obtaining a general description of the spectrum of a derivation on a W*-algebra.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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