Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: According to J. Feldman and C. Moore's wellknown theorem on Cartan subalgebras, a variant of the group measure space construction gives an equivalence of categories between twisted countable standard measured equivalence relations and Cartan pairs, i.e., a von Neumann algebra (on a separable Hilbert space) together with a Cartan subalgebra. A. Kumjian gave a C * -algebraic analogue of this theorem in the early eighties.After a short survey of maximal abelian self-adjoint subalgebras in operator algebras, I present a natural definition of a Cartan subalgebra in a C * -algebra and an extension of Kumjian's theorem which covers graph algebras and some foliation algebras.
Author: Jean Renault
Institution: Université d'Orléans
Language: English
Subfield: Mathematical Physics
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3205456953