| Abstract: | Several problems studied by professor R. V. Kadison are shown to be closely related. The problems were originally formulated in the contexts of homomorphisms of C*-algebras, cohomology of von Neumann algebras and perturbations of C*-algebras. Recent research by G. Pisier has demonstrated that all of the problems considered are related to the question of whether all C*-algebras have finite length. Received October 9, 2002, Accepted January 15, 2003 |
