Abstract
We consider aC *-algebraA generated byk self-adjoint elements. We prove that, for\(n \geqslant \sqrt {k - 1} \), the algebraM n (A) is singly generated, i.e., generated by one non-self-adjoint element. We present an example of algebraA for which the property thatM n (A) is singly generated implies the relation\(n \geqslant \sqrt {k - 1} \).
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Institute of Mathematics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev. Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 51, No. 8, pp. 1136–1141, August, 1999.
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Rabanovich, V.I. Singly generatedC *-algebras. Ukr Math J 51, 1282–1290 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02592518
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02592518