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arxiv: 1106.5942 · v3 · pith:O623SEGDnew · submitted 2011-06-29 · 🧮 math.OA · math.CT· quant-ph

Characterizations of categories of commutative C*-subalgebras

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We aim to characterize the category of injective *-homomorphisms between commutative C*-subalgebras of a given C*-algebra A. We reduce this problem to finding a weakly terminal commutative subalgebra of A, and solve the latter for various C*-algebras, including all commutative ones and all type I von Neumann algebras. This addresses a natural generalization of the Mackey-Piron programme: which lattices are those of closed subspaces of Hilbert space? We also discuss the way this categorified generalization differs from the original question.

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