• Vectorspaces over division rings • Matrices, opposite rings • Semi-simple modules and rings • Semi-simple algebras • Reduced trace and norm • Other criteria for simplicity • Involutions • Brauer group of a field • Tensor products of fields • Crossed product construction of simple algebras • Cyclic algebra construction of simple algebras • Quaternion algebras • Examples • Unramified extensions...

In this work, I address a primary issue with adapting categorical and algebraic concepts to functional analytic settings, the lack of free objects. Using a “normed set” and associated categories, I describe constructions of normed objects, which build from a set to a vector space to an algebra, and thus parallel the natural progression found in algebraic settings. Each of these is characterized...

We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is equal to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in quantum tori, Bere...

We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is equal to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in quantum tori, Bere...

A mapping α from a normed space X into itself is called a Banach operator if there is a constant k such that 0≤ k < 1 and ‖α2(x)−α(x)‖ ≤ k‖α(x)−x‖ for all x ∈X. In this note we study some properties of Banach operators. Among other results we show that if α is a linear Banach operator on a normed space X, then N(α−1) = N((α−1)2), N(α−1)∩R(α−1)= (0) and if X is finite dimensional then X =N(α−1)⊕...

We introduce an analogue for Lip-normed operator systems of the second author’s order-unit quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance and prove that it is Lipschitz equivalent to the first author’s complete distance. This enables us to consolidate the basic theory of what might be called operator Gromov-Hausdorff convergence. In particular we establish a completeness theorem and deduce continuity in qua...