We study C*-algebras associated with subsemigroups of groups. For a large class of such semigroups including positive cones in quasi-lattice ordered groups and left Ore semigroups, we describe the corresponding semigroup C*algebras as C*-algebras of inverse semigroups, groupoid C*-algebras and full corners in associated group crossed products. These descriptions allow us to characterize nuclear...

The model theory of metric structures ([?]) was successfully applied to analyze ultrapowers of C*-algebras in [?] and [?]. Since important classes of separable C*-algebras, such as UHF, AF, or nuclear algebras, are not elementary (i.e., not characterized by their theory—see [?, §6.1]), for a moment it seemed that model theoretic methods do not apply to these classes of C*-algebras. We prove res...

Let $A$ and $B$ be two unital $C^{*}$-algebras and $varphi:A rightarrow B$ be a linear map. In this paper, we investigate the structure of linear maps between two $C^{*}$-algebras that preserve a certain property or relation. In particular, we show that if $varphi$ is unital, $B$ is commutative and $V(varphi(a)^{*}varphi(b))subseteq V(a^{*}b)$ for all $a,bin A$, then $varphi$ is a $*$-homomorph...

In this paper, we introduce n-jordan homomorphisms and n-jordan *-homomorphisms and Also investigate the Hyers-Ulam-Rassiasstability of n-jordan *-homomorphisms on C*-algebras.

suppose $pi:mathcal{a}rightarrow mathcal{b}$ is a surjective unital $ast$-homomorphism between c*-algebras $mathcal{a}$ and $mathcal{b}$, and $0leq aleq1$ with $ain  mathcal{a}$. we give a sufficient condition that ensures there is a proection $pin mathcal{a}$ such that $pi left( pright) =pi left( aright) $. an easy consequence is a result of [l. g. brown and g. k. pedersen, c*-algebras of real...