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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