Approximately isometric lifting in quasidiagonal extensions

Let 0 → I → A → A/I → 0 be a short exact sequence of C*-algebras with A unital. Suppose that the extension 0 → I → A → A/I → 0 is quasidiagonal, then it is shown that any positive element (projection, partial isometry, unitary element, respectively) in A/I has a lifting with the same form which commutes with some quasicentral approximate unit of I consisting of projections. Furthermore, it is shown that for any given positive number ε, two positive elements (projections, partial isometries, unitary elements, respectively) in A/I, and a positive element (projection, partial isometry, unitary element, respectively) a which is a lifting of , there is a positive element (projection, partial isometry, unitary element, respectively) b in A which is a lifting of such that ∥a−b∥ < . As an application, it is shown that for any positive numbers ε and in U(A/I) ₀ , there exists u in U(A)₀ which is a lifting of such that cel(u) < cel. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10771161)