$C^{*}$-algebras isomorphically representable on $l^{p}$

Abstract

Let $p\in(1,\infty)\backslash\{2\}$. We show that every homomorphism from a $C^{*}$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ into $B(l^{p}(J))$ satisfies a compactness property where $J$ is any set. As a consequence, we show that a $C^{*}$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ is isomorphic to a subalgebra of $B(l^{p}(J))$, for some set $J$, if and only if $\mathcal{A}$ is residually finite dimensional.