Pure Appl Algebra Research Articles

A Little More on Coz-Unique Frames

Coz-unique frames were defined and characterized by Banaschewski and Gilmour (J Pure Appl Algebra 157:1–22, 2001). In this note we give further characterizations of these frames along the lines of characterizations of absolutely z-embedded spaces obtained by Blair and Hager (Math Z 136:41–52, 1974) on the one hand, and by Hager and Johnson (Canad J Math 20:389–393, 1968) on the other. We also extend to frames certain characterizations of z-embedded spaces; namely, we give a characterization of coz-onto frame homomorphisms in terms of normal covers.

Stably isomorphic dual operator algebras

We prove that two unital dual operator algebras A, B are stably isomorphic if and only if they are Δ-equivalent (Eleftherakis in J Pure Appl Algebra, ArXiv:math. OA/0607489v4, 2007), if and only if they have completely isometric normal representations α,β on Hilbert spaces H, K respectively and there exists a ternary ring of operators \({\mathcal{M} \subset B(H, K)}\) such that \({\alpha (A) = [\mathcal{M}^* \beta(B)\mathcal{M}]^{-w^*}}\) and \({\beta(B) = [\mathcal{M}\alpha(A)\mathcal{M}^*]^{-w^*}.}\)