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On The Projections Of Commutative C*-Algebras, Alaa Ahmad Hamdan

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Gelfand and Naimark proved that the Banach algebra of continuous complex-valued functions on a compact space Ω is the only example of commutative unital C*-algebras. We study the C*-algebra C(Ω) and its main elements, such as projections. Also, we discuss the mapping between projections, which preserves orthogonality (orthoisomorphism). A bijective θ between projections induces a bijective Θ between the Boolean algebra of clopen subsets of X. Then, we give main properties of such Θ. For a compact subset X of ℝ, we classify the projections of C(X) by introducing the similar relation on P(C(X)). We introduce an …