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We study the conjugate space of a C*-algebra as a Banach space. In this chapter, we will see that a C*-algebra behaves, as a Banach space, like the space of continuous functions on a compact space, and its conjugate space looks like the L1-space on a measure space.
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Takesaki, M. (1979). Conjugate Spaces. In: Takesaki, M. (eds) Theory of Operator Algebras I. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6188-9_3
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