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arxiv: 1303.2606 · v2 · pith:LBATODEDnew · submitted 2013-03-11 · 🧮 math.KT · math.FA· math.OA

Banach spaces whose algebra of bounded operators has the integers as their K₀-group

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Let $X$ and $Y$ be Banach spaces such that the ideal of operators which factor through $Y$ has codimension one in the Banach algebra $\mathscr{B}(X)$ of all bounded operators on $X$, and suppose that $Y$ contains a complemented subspace which is isomorphic to $Y\oplus Y$ and that $X$ is isomorphic to $X\oplus Z$ for every complemented subspace $Z$ of $Y$. Then the $K_0$-group of $\mathscr{B}(X)$ is isomorphic to the additive group $\mathbb{Z}$ of integers. A number of Banach spaces which satisfy the above conditions are identified. Notably, it follows that $K_0(\mathscr{B}(C([0,\omega_1])))\cong\mathbb{Z}$, where $C([0,\omega_1])$ denotes the Banach space of scalar-valued, continuous functions defined on the compact Hausdorff space of ordinals not exceeding the first uncountable ordinal $\omega_1$, endowed with the order topology.

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