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When absolute continuity on C-algebras is automatically uniform
1 Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, 358 Little Hall, Gainsville FL32611-8105, USA 2 Mathematical Institute, Tôhoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan 3 Mathematics Department, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AX
Let A be a C*-algebra and let K be a relatively weakly compact subset of the dual of A. Let
be a positive linear functional on A such that, for each
in K,
is strongly absolutely continuous with respect to
. Then, for each
> 0, there exists
> 0, such that for each x in the closed unit ball of A,
(xx* +x*x)1/2 
implies |
(x) |
for every 
K. This result is extended to the situation where K is a
-bounded set of weakly compact operators from A to a Banach space Y.
Received 16 December 2002. Revised 10 June 2003.