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arXiv2009

Minimal sequences and the Kadison-Singer problem

The Kadison-Singer problem asks: does every pure state on the diagonal sublgebra of the C*-algebra of bounded operators on a separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space admit a unique extension? A yes answer is equivalent to several open conjectures including Feichtinger's: every bounded frame is a finite union of Riesz sequences. We consider the special case: Feichtinger's conjecture for exponentials and prove that the set of projections onto a measurable subset of the circle group of the set of exponential functions equals a union of a finite number of Reisz sequences if and only if there exists a Reisz subsequence corresponding to integers whose characteristic function is a nonzero minimal sequence.

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arXiv2009

Fixed point and spectral characterization of finite dimensional C*-algebras

We show that the following conditions on a C*-algebra are equivalent: (i) it has the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings, (ii) the spectrum of every self adjoint element is finite, (iii) it is finite dimensional. We prove that (i) implies (ii) using constructions given by Goebel, that (ii) implies (iii) using projection operator properties derived from the spectral and Gelfand-Naimark-Segal theorems, and observe that (iii) implies (i) by Brouwer's fixed point theorem.

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