A remark on the similarity and perturbation problems

Abstract

In this note we show that Kadison's similarity problem for C*-algebras is equivalent to a problem in perturbation theory: must close C*-algebras have close commutants?

6 Pages, minor typos fixed. C. R. Acad. Sci. Canada, to appear

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