C*-ALGEBRAS OF TRIVIAL K-THEORY AND SEMILATTICES
1999 ◽
Vol 10
(01)
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pp. 93-128
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Keyword(s):
K Theory
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We give a class of nuclear C*-algebras which contains [Formula: see text] and is closed under stable isomorphism, ideals, quotients, hereditary subalgebras, tensor products, direct sums, direct limits as well as extensions. We show that this class of C*-algebras is classified by their equivalence classes of projections and there is a one to one correspondence between (unital) C*-algebras in the class and countable distributive semilattices (with largest elements). One of the main results is that essential extensions of a C*-algebras which is a direct limit of finite direct sums of corners of [Formula: see text] by the same type of C*-algebras are still direct limits of finite direct sums of corners of [Formula: see text].