scholarly journals NON-COCOMMUTATIVE C*-BIALGEBRA DEFINED AS THE DIRECT SUM OF FREE GROUP C*-ALGEBRAS

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
KATSUNORI KAWAMURA

AbstractLeti ${\Bbb F}$n be the free group of rank n and let $\bigoplus C^{*}({\Bbb F}_{n})$ denote the direct sum of full group C*-algebras $C^{*}({\Bbb F}_{n})$ of ${\Bbb F}_{n} (1\leq n<\infty$). We introduce a new comultiplication Δϕ on $\bigoplus C^{*}({\Bbb F}_{n})$ such that $(\bigoplus C^{*}({\Bbb F}_{n}),\,\Delta_{\varphi})$ is a non-cocommutative C*-bialgebra. With respect to Δϕ, the tensor product π⊗ϕπ′ of any two representations π and π′ of free groups is defined. The operation ×ϕ is associative and non-commutative. We compute its tensor product formulas of several representations.

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Baumslag

We establish the result that a finitely generated cyclic extension of a free group is residually finite. This is done, in part, by making use of the fact that a finitely generated module over a principal ideal domain is a direct sum of cyclic modules.


2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilja Gogić

AbstractLet A be a C*-algebra and let ΘA be the canonical contraction form the Haagerup tensor product of M(A) with itself to the space of completely bounded maps on A. In this paper we consider the following conditions on A: (a) A is a finitely generated module over the centre of M(A); (b) the image of ΘA is equal to the set E(A) of all elementary operators on A; and (c) the lengths of elementary operators on A are uniformly bounded. We show that A satisfies (a) if and only if it is a finite direct sum of unital homogeneous C*-algebras. We also show that if a separable A satisfies (b) or (c), then A is necessarily subhomogeneous and the C*-bundles corresponding to the homogeneous subquotients of A must be of finite type.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
Yufang Li ◽  
Zhe Dong

In this paper, we introduce new tensor products ⊗ p ( 1 ≤ p ≤ + ∞ ) on C ℓ p * ( Γ ) ⊗ C ℓ p * ( Γ ) and ⊗ c 0 on C c 0 * ( Γ ) ⊗ C c 0 * ( Γ ) for any discrete group Γ . We obtain that for 1 ≤ p < + ∞ C ℓ p * ( Γ ) ⊗ m a x C ℓ p * ( Γ ) = C ℓ p * ( Γ ) ⊗ p C ℓ p * ( Γ ) if and only if Γ is amenable; C c 0 * ( Γ ) ⊗ m a x C c 0 * ( Γ ) = C c 0 * ( Γ ) ⊗ c 0 C c 0 * ( Γ ) if and only if Γ has Haagerup property. In particular, for the free group with two generators F 2 we show that C ℓ p * ( F 2 ) ⊗ p C ℓ p * ( F 2 ) ≇ C ℓ q * ( F 2 ) ⊗ q C ℓ q * ( F 2 ) for 2 ≤ q < p ≤ + ∞ .


1991 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Bédos

Let G denote a discrete group and let us say that G is C*-simple if the reduced group C*-algebra associated with G is simple. We notice immediately that there is no interest in considering here the full group C*-algebra associated with G, because it is simple if and only if C is trivial. Since Powers in 1975 [26] proved that all nonabelian free groups are C*-simple, the class of C*-simp1e groups has been considerably enlarged (see [1, 2, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 24] as a sample!), and two important subclasses are so-called weak Powers groups ([6, 13]; see Section 4 for definition and examples) and the groups of Akemann-Lee type [1, 2], which are groups possessing a normal non-abelian free subgroup with trivial centralizer.


1997 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 375-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaru Nagisa

We compute the real rank and the stable rank of full group C*-algebras. Main result is (i) rr (C*(Fn)) = ∞, (ii) sr (C*(G1 * G2)) = ∞(|G1| ≥ 2, |G2| ≥ 2 and |G1| + |G2| ≥ 5), (iii) sr (C*(G1 * G2)) = 1(|G1| = |G2| = 2), where Fn is the free group with n generators, G1 and G2 are finite groups and |G| means the order of the group G.


1974 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
George A. Elliott

In this paper we shall consider the class of C*-algebras which are inductive limits of sequences of finite-dimensional C*-algebras. We shall give a complete description of those C*-algebras in this class every derivation of which is inner.Theorem. Let A be a C*-algebra. Suppose that A is the inductive limit of a sequence of finite-dimensional C*-algebras. Then the following statements are equivalent:(i) every derivation of A is inner;(ii) A is the direct sum of a finite number of algebras each of which is either commutative, the tensor product of a finite-dimensional and a commutative with unit, or simple with unit.


1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Archbold ◽  
Alexander Kumjian

A C*-algebra A is said to be approximately finite dimensional (AF) if it is the inductive limit of a sequence of finite dimensional C*-algebras(see [2], [5]). It is said to be nuclear if, for each C*-algebra B, there is a unique C*-norm on the *-algebraic tensor product A ⊗B [11]. Since finite dimensional C*-algebras are nuclear, and inductive limits of nuclear C*-algebras are nuclear [16];,every AF C*-algebra is nuclear. The family of nuclear C*-algebras is a large and well-behaved class (see [12]). The AF C*-algebras for a particularly tractable sub-class which has been completely classified in terms of the invariant K0 [7], [5].


1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall Hall

This paper has as its chief aim the establishment of two formulae associated with subgroups of finite index in free groups. The first of these (Theorem 3.1) gives an expression for the total length of the free generators of a subgroup U of the free group Fr with r generators. The second (Theorem 5.2) gives a recursion formula for calculating the number of distinct subgroups of index n in Fr.Of some independent interest are two theorems used which do not involve any finiteness conditions. These are concerned with ways of determining a subgroup U of F.


1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gaboriau ◽  
G. Levitt ◽  
M. Lustig

Let α be an automorphism of a free group of rank n. The Scott conjecture, proved by Bestvina-Handel, asserts that the fixed subgroup of α has rank at most n. We give a short alternative proof of this result using R-trees.


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