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Structural properties of one shell-generated C*-algebra

MathlibAnnex.CStarAlgebra.CAR.shellFamilyEndpoint

theorem

Collects the proved properties of a single generated algebra, keeping the shell-family input separate from its consequences.

Statement

For every fixed shell family, form , and as below. Then is nonzero, norm closed and infinite-dimensional, is injective and unital, and is faithful and irreducible. Every nonzero irreducible complex star representation of , even if not initially required to preserve the unit, is unitarily equivalent to . The only norm-closed two-sided ideals of are and , and has no injective star representation whose range is precisely all compact operators on any complex Hilbert space.

Assumptions

Let be the completed CAR algebra with matrix stages embedded by . Write for the image of the first diagonal matrix unit, , and for the root state characterized by on each stage, where is its canonical embedding.

Index chosen pure-state Gelfand-Naimark-Segal (GNS) representations by their unitary-equivalence classes , with root index and representative states .

A fixed shell family consists of complex-linear unital star automorphisms and elements satisfying , and .

At the root, is the identity and .

Let be the Hilbert direct sum of these GNS spaces, their representation of , and its embedded unit cyclic vector, where is the selected unit cyclic vector and is coordinate inclusion.

Choose once a family of unitary operators from the construction of the shell unitaries: , , and . Here denotes the bounded complex-linear operators on .

Put , the norm-closed unital star algebra generated by these operators. Let be with its codomain restricted to , and let be inclusion.

The comparison Hilbert space may be any complete complex Hilbert space in an arbitrary independent universe. No separability or dimension bound on is added. The chosen family, links and algebra do not depend on that comparison universe.

Conclusion

All conclusions concern this same concrete . In the capture assertion, unitary equivalence means there is a surjective complex-linear isometry with for all and . In the compact-operator assertion, the competing map need not be unital and the zero Hilbert space is also covered.

The separately linked Lean structure lists these properties; defining that proposition does not prove it. This theorem proves that proposition for every supplied family. The family hypothesis remains explicit. The structural theorem for the homogeneity-based algebra and its faithful representation on a separable Hilbert space specialize this fixed-family result.

Proof route

The construction of the shell unitaries gives a faithful source map and irreducible inclusion. The unital copy of the infinite-dimensional CAR algebra makes nonzero and infinite-dimensional. The universal capture theorem supplies unitary equivalence for unital irreducible representations; irreducibility forces any nonzero possibly nonunital representation to preserve the unit. Ideal-separating pure GNS representations then yield simplicity. Finally a unital infinite-dimensional algebra cannot be represented injectively onto all compact operators.

Proof steps
  1. Choose the links once, restrict to the generated algebra, and use its faithful root summand. Norm closure is part of the construction of .

  2. If were finite-dimensional, its injective complex-linear source map would make finite-dimensional, contradicting the growing matrix stages.

  3. Apply the unitary-equivalence theorem, the nonunital-to-unital argument, and the closed-ideal consequence. Exclude an isomorphism of this same infinite-dimensional algebra onto all compact operators. These are separate proved results supplying the listed fields.

Main citations

Lean source signature (exact)

theorem shellFamilyEndpoint (family : RepresentativeShellFamily) :
    ShellFamilyEndpoint.{v} family
In the source Mathematical meaning
family : RepresentativeShellFamily The supplied normalized CAR shell family fixes the unitary links , the atomic space , the generated algebra , the source , and literal inclusion once for all.
ShellFamilyEndpoint.{v} family The output is the proposition listing ten properties of those same objects. Its full separate exact structure and one row for every field follow below. The comparison universe v controls the Hilbert-space quantifiers, not a new family or a new target for each field.
theorem shellFamilyEndpoint This theorem proves all ten fields for every supplied family; merely defining the proposition would not prove them.

The following is a separate, complete exact declaration of the result proposition, from lines 194–229 of the same fixed source. It is not appended to or substituted for the theorem signature above.

structure ShellFamilyEndpoint (family : RepresentativeShellFamily) : Prop where
  nontrivial_target : Nontrivial (ShellFamilyTarget family)
  isClosed_target :
    IsClosed
      (ShellFamilyTarget family : Set
        (MathlibAnnex.CStarAlgebra.PureState.SelectedAtomicHilbert completedRootPureState →L[ℂ]
          MathlibAnnex.CStarAlgebra.PureState.SelectedAtomicHilbert completedRootPureState))
  source_injective : Function.Injective (shellFamilySourceHom family)
  source_unital : shellFamilySourceHom family 1 = 1
  not_finiteDimensional_target :
    ¬ FiniteDimensional ℂ (ShellFamilyTarget family)
  ambient_injective : Function.Injective (shellFamilyInclusion family)
  isIrreducible_ambient :
    Representation.IsIrreducible (shellFamilyInclusion family)
  captures_nonunital :
    ∀ (K : Type v) [NormedAddCommGroup K] [InnerProductSpace ℂ K]
      [CompleteSpace K]
      (rho : NonUnitalRepresentation
        (A := ShellFamilyTarget family) (H := K)),
      rho.IsIrreducible →
        ∃ U :
            MathlibAnnex.CStarAlgebra.PureState.SelectedAtomicHilbert completedRootPureState ≃ₗᵢ[ℂ] K,
          ∀ (a : ShellFamilyTarget family)
            (x : MathlibAnnex.CStarAlgebra.PureState.SelectedAtomicHilbert completedRootPureState),
            U (shellFamilyInclusion family a x) = rho a (U x)
  closedIdeal_dichotomy :
    ∀ I : TwoSidedIdeal (ShellFamilyTarget family),
      IsClosed (I : Set (ShellFamilyTarget family)) → I = ⊥ ∨ I = ⊤
  not_compactOperatorModel :
    ∀ (K : Type v) [NormedAddCommGroup K] [InnerProductSpace ℂ K]
      [CompleteSpace K]
      (e : ShellFamilyTarget family →⋆ₙₐ[ℂ] (K →L[ℂ] K)),
      ¬ (Function.Injective e ∧
        (∀ a : ShellFamilyTarget family, IsCompactOperator (e a)) ∧
        ∀ T : K →L[ℂ] K, IsCompactOperator T →
          ∃ a : ShellFamilyTarget family, e a = T)
In the source Mathematical meaning
nontrivial_target The fixed algebra is nonzero.
isClosed_target The set is closed for the operator norm.
source_injective The fixed source map , , is injective.
source_unital The same map sends to .
not_finiteDimensional_target is not finite-dimensional over .
ambient_injective The literal inclusion is injective.
isIrreducible_ambient This same is nonzero irreducible: it has no proper nonzero closed reducing subspace.
captures_nonunital After the family and have been fixed, for every complete complex Hilbert space in universe v and every nonzero irreducible possibly nonunital , there is a surjective complex-linear isometry with for every , .
closedIdeal_dichotomy For every two-sided ideal in , if its underlying set is norm closed, then or .
not_compactOperatorModel For every complete complex Hilbert space and every possibly nonunital star homomorphism , it is impossible that is injective, all are compact, and every compact operator on equals some . The zero space is included.

Further source notes: Its exact structure declaration is linked as “Properties of the fixed target” above.

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