nLab Jacques Dixmier

Jacques Dixmier (born 1924-)

• Wikipedia entry

Selected writings

Introducing what came to be called the Dixmier-Douady class:

• Jacques Dixmier, Adrien Douady: Champs continus d’espaces hilbertiens et de $C^*$-algebres, Bull. Soc. Math. France 91 (1963) 227-284 [numdam:10.24033/bsmf.1596, pdf]

Introducing hyperstonean spaces:

• Jacques Dixmier, Sur certains espaces considérés par M. H. Stone. Summa Brasiliensis Mathematicae 2, (1951), 151–182. PDF

On $C^\ast$-algebras, states on star-algebras, unitary representations, …

• Jacques Dixmier, Chapter 13 of: $C^\ast$-algebras, North Holland (1977) [ch2:pdf, ch13:pdf]

Published at age 100:

• Jacques Dixmier: Operateurs hypofermés, Journal of Operator Theory 91 2 (2024) 323-333 [doi:10.7900/jot.2023nov13.2451]

Related entries

• Dixmier-Douady class

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