Close Separable C*-Algebras Without Spatial Conjugacy

OpenAI

For every epsilon>0, the OpenAI-authored manuscript constructs unital norm-separable C*-algebras on a common separable Hilbert space, with common identity and Kadison-Kastler distance below epsilon, which share their von Neumann closure but are not conjugate by any unitary. It does not assert abstract nonisomorphism or a von Neumann counterexample.

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What was already known

Johnson had arbitrarily close separable nuclear examples without a near-identity implementing unitary, but they were spatially conjugate. Choi-Christensen close nonisomorphic examples used norm nonseparability. Christensen and collaborators proved spatial conjugacy for sufficiently close separable nuclear C*-algebras; the unrestricted separable spatial form remained open.

AI involvement AI-led

OpenAI is the manuscript's author. Its construction uses earlier human perturbation and representation theory; no individual model path or named human check is documented.

OpenAI is the credited author of the source manuscript, without evidence for the stronger autonomous label.

Importance Major

Claims a separable C*-algebra counterexample to unrestricted spatial Kadison–Kastler stability.

Limitations

The algebras are not unitarily conjugate, but abstract nonisomorphism is not claimed. They have the same von Neumann closure, so the construction is not a von Neumann counterexample. No completed check of the proof is documented.

Technical verification Reported

The original source presents a detailed proof but reports no completed human or machine check of this counterexample.

Human understanding Few

The manuscript explains the sequence-algebra and relative tensor-norm mechanism, but no human explanation of it is documented. Few reflects that evidence gap.

Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

Claims a separable C*-algebra counterexample to unrestricted spatial Kadison–Kastler stability.

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