Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York 10468 L. A. Coburn ; Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14214 |
Abstract: | For a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space , we consider the full algebra of bounded linear transformations and the unique non-trivial norm-closed two-sided ideal of compact operators . We also consider the quotient -algebra with quotient map For any -subalgebra of , the relative commutant is given by for all in . It was shown by D. Voiculescu that, for any separable unital -subalgebra of , In this note, we exhibit a non-separable unital -subalgebra of for which (VDCT) fails. |