I find that most of books discussing the polar decompostion at the W*-algebras, but not C*-algebras. I guess the rough reason is that the element of W*algebras has the well supported set, but I want to know more details.
1) What is the basic difference between the C*-algebras and W*-algebras such that the W*-algebras has the well supported set.
2) If we insist to do the polar decompostion for a noninvertible element in the C*-algebras, what will happen?