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The C*-Envelope of an Irreducible Periodic Weighted Unilateral Shift

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The C*-envelope of the 3-dimensional operator system generated by an irreducible periodic weighted unilateral shift operator is determined.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada

    Martín Argerami & Douglas Farenick

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In memory of William B. Arveson

This work is supported in part by the NSERC Discovery Grant program.

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Argerami, M., Farenick, D. The C*-Envelope of an Irreducible Periodic Weighted Unilateral Shift. Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 77, 199–210 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00020-013-2087-8

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