APPROXIMATELYARTINIAN（NOETHERIAN）C*-ALGEBRAS

In this article,we introduce and study the class of approximately Artinian（Noetherian） C*-algebras,called AR-algebras（AN-algebras）,which is a simultaneous generalization of Artinian（Noetherian） C*-algebras and AF-algebras.We study properties such as the ideal property and topological dimension zero for them.In particular,we show that a faithful AR or AN algebra is strongly purely infinite iff it is purely infinite iff it is weakly purely infinite.This extends the Kirchberg's O∞-absorption theorem,and implies that a weakly purely infinite C*-algebra is Noetherian iff every its ideal has a full projection.