Angles Between Intermediate Operator Subalgebras

Abstract

Motivated by [2] and [5], the notions of interior and exterior angles between a pair of compatible intermediate W*-subalgebras of an inclusion of W*-algebras with a normal conditional expectation with finite probabilistic index are introduced. This is then employed effectively to define the interior angle between a pair of compatible intermediate C*-subalgebras of an inclusion of non-unital C*-algebras with a conditional expectation with finite Watatani index. It is also shown that the interior angle is stable under the minimal tensor product of unital C*-algebras.