C*-convexity and C*-Polyhedron

Abstract

A polyhedron in a Banach space is a family of points $\mathcal{X}$ such that for every $x\in \mathcal{X}$, there is a closed convex set $C$ such that $a\notin C$ and $\mathcal{X}\setminus \{x\}\subset C$. In this article, we consider the notion of C*-convexity and introduce the notion of a C*-polyhedron, which is a noncommutative version of the notion of polyhedrons. We investigate the largest size of a C*-polyhedron in some classical C*-algebras.