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VOICULESCU’S THEOREM FOR NONSEPARABLE $\text{C}^{\ast} $-ALGEBRAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2020

ANDREA VACCARO*
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV P.O.B. 653, BE’ER SHEVA84105, ISRAELE-mail: vaccaro@post.bgu.ac.ilURL: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~lempp/
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We prove that Voiculescu’s noncommutative version of the Weyl-von Neumann Theorem can be extended to all unital, separably representable $\mathrm {C}^\ast $ -algebras whose density character is strictly smaller than the (uncountable) cardinal invariant $\mathfrak {p}$ . We show moreover that Voiculescu’s Theorem consistently fails for $\mathrm {C}^\ast $ -algebras of larger density character.

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