State (functional Analysis) - Properties of States

Properties of States

  • a tracial state is a state such that

For any separable C*-algebra, the set of tracial states is a Choquet simplex).

  • a state is called normal, iff for every monotone, increasing net of operators with upper bound, converges to .
  • a state is said to be faithful, if the image of strictly positive operators is itself strictly positive

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