Characterization of Approximate a-Birkhoff-James Orthogonality in C*-Algebras
نویسندگان
1 Department of Mathematical Science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
2 Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
doi
10.22052/mir.2025.256282.1501چکیده
Assume that $ \mathcal{A} $ is a unital C*-algebra and $ a\in\mathcal{A} $ is a positive and invertible element. Set \[ \mathcal{S}_a (\mathcal{A})=\{ \dfrac{f}{f(a)} \, : \, f \in \mathcal{S}(\mathcal{A}), \, f(a)\neq 0\}, \] where $ \mathcal{S}(\mathcal{A}) $ is the state space of $ \mathcal{A} $. The main aim of this paper is to introduce and study the notions of approximate a-orthogonality and approximate a-Birkhoff-James orthogonality associated to the norm: \[ \|x\|_a = \sup_{\varphi \in \mathcal{S}_a(\mathcal{A})} \sqrt{\varphi(x* ax)}\quad (x\in \mathcal{A}),\] in C*-algebra $\mathcal{A}$.First, by providing some examples, we show that these approximate orthogonalities are generally incomparable in non-commutative C*-algebras. Next, we will see that under what conditions, these orthogonality relationships are related. Also, two different characterizations of approximate a-Birkhoff-James orthogonality in terms of the elements of $ \mathcal{S}_a (\mathcal{A}) $ are obtained.Moreover, the strong version of approximate a-Birkhoff-James orthogonality is studied. Finally, we prove that if approximate a-Birkhoff-James orthogonality and its strong version coincide on $ \mathcal{A} $, then $ \mathcal{A} $ is commutative.