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Obstructions to lifting abelian subalgebras of corona algebras

### Andrea Vaccaro

Vol. 302 (2019), No. 1, 293–307
##### Abstract

Let $A$ be a noncommutative, nonunital ${C}^{\ast }$-algebra. Given a set of commuting positive elements in the corona algebra $Q\left(A\right)$, we study some obstructions to the existence of a commutative lifting of such a set to the multiplier algebra $M\left(A\right)$. Our focus is on the obstructions caused by the size of the collection we want to lift. It is known that no obstacles show up when lifting a countable family of commuting projections, or of pairwise orthogonal positive elements. However, this is not the case for larger collections. We prove in fact that for every primitive, nonunital, $\sigma$-unital ${C}^{\ast }$-algebra $A$, there exists an uncountable set of pairwise orthogonal positive elements in $Q\left(A\right)$ such that no uncountable subset of it can be lifted to a set of commuting elements of $M\left(A\right)$. Moreover, the positive elements in $Q\left(A\right)$ can be chosen to be projections if $A$ has real rank zero.

##### Keywords
corona algebra, commuting self-adjoint elements, lifting
Primary: 47C15
Secondary: 03E75