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Nonzero irreducibility without a unit assumption

MathlibAnnex.Analysis.CStarAlgebra.NonUnitalCStarRepresentation.IsIrreducible

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Requires nonzero action as well as the absence of proper closed reducing subspaces.

Statement

Let be a complex -algebra, with no unit assumed, a complex Hilbert space, and a -representation. The following predicate defines nonzero irreducibility.

Definition

The first condition is The second says: for every complex linear subspace which is closed and satisfies one has or . These are the definitions of nonzero action and reduction in Nonzero action and closed reducing subspaces. Because and is closed under adjoints, invariance under every also gives the stated adjoint invariance; the source records both explicitly.

Assumptions

No separability or injectivity is assumed. The nonzero requirement is a property of the action , not merely of its underlying Hilbert space.

Conclusion

The zero representation is excluded, and every closed reducing complex subspace is either or .

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The complete declaration below is a separate exact source excerpt; the original header record is retained with the manuscript.

def IsIrreducible (pi : NonUnitalCStarRepresentation A H) : Prop :=
  pi.IsNonzero ∧ ∀ L : Submodule ℂ H, pi.Reduces L → L = ⊥ ∨ L = ⊤
In the source Mathematical meaning
(pi : NonUnitalCStarRepresentation A H) The given action of by bounded operators on .
: Prop The output is a condition on that action.
pi.IsNonzero Some has as an operator. The condition alone would not suffice.
∀ L : Submodule ℂ H For every complex linear subspace of .
pi.Reduces L is norm closed and, for all and , both and belong to .
L = ⊥ ∨ L = ⊤ That same reducing subspace must be the zero subspace or all of .

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