On derivations and elementary operators on C*-algebras

Abstract

AbstractLet A be a unital C*-algebra with the canonical (H) C*-bundle $\mathfrak{A}$ over the maximal ideal space of the centre of A, and let E(A) be the set of all elementary operators on A. We consider derivations on A which lie in the completely bounded norm closure of E(A), and show that such derivations are necessarily inner in the case when each fibre of $\mathfrak{A}$ is a prime C*-algebra. We also consider separable C*-algebras A for which $\mathfrak{A}$ is an (F) bundle. For these C*-algebras we show that the following conditions are equivalent: E(A) is closed in the operator norm; A as a Banach module over its centre is topologically finitely generated; fibres of $\mathfrak{A}$ have uniformly finite dimensions, and each restriction bundle of $\mathfrak{A}$ over a set where its fibres are of constant dimension is of finite type as a vector bundle.