{"title":"Bockstein operations and extensions with trivial boundary maps","authors":"Qingnan An, Zhichao Liu","doi":"arxiv-2408.17055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.17055","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the relationship between ideal structures and\u0000the Bockstein operations in the total K-theory, offering various diagrams to\u0000demonstrate their effectiveness in classification. We explore different\u0000situations and demonstrate a variety of conclusions, highlighting the crucial\u0000role these structures play within the framework of invariants.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of homomorphisms from $C(Ω)$ to a $C^*$-algebra","authors":"Qingnan An, George Elliott, Zhichao Liu","doi":"arxiv-2408.16657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.16657","url":null,"abstract":"Let $Omega$ be a compact subset of $mathbb{C}$ and let $A$ be a unital\u0000simple, separable $C^*$-algebra with stable rank one, real rank zero and strict\u0000comparison. We show that, given a Cu-morphism $alpha:{rm Cu}(C(Omega))to\u0000{rm Cu}(A)$ with $alpha(langle mathds{1}_{Omega}rangle)leq langle\u00001_Arangle$, there exists a homomorphism $phi: C(Omega)to A$ such that ${rm\u0000Cu}(phi)=alpha$ and $phi$ is unique up to approximate unitary equivalence.\u0000We also give classification results for maps from a large class of\u0000$C^*$-algebras to $A$ in terms of the Cuntz semigroup.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Gao, Greg Patchell, Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
{"title":"Sofic actions on graphs","authors":"David Gao, Greg Patchell, Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli","doi":"arxiv-2408.15470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.15470","url":null,"abstract":"We develop a theory of soficity for actions on graphs and obtain new\u0000applications to the study of sofic groups. We establish various examples,\u0000stability and permanence properties of sofic actions on graphs, in particular\u0000soficity is preserved by taking several natural graph join operations. We prove\u0000that an action of a group on its Cayley graph is sofic if and only if the group\u0000is sofic. We show that arbitrary actions of amenable groups on graphs are\u0000sofic. Using a graph theoretic result of E. Hrushovski, we also show that\u0000arbitrary actions of free groups on graphs are sofic. Notably we show that\u0000arbitrary actions of sofic groups on graphs, with amenable stabilizers, are\u0000sofic, settling completely an open problem from cite{gao2024soficity}. We also\u0000show that soficity is preserved by taking limits under a natural\u0000Gromov-Hausdorff topology, generalizing prior work of the first author\u0000cite{gao2024actionslerfgroupssets}. Our work sheds light on a family of groups\u0000called graph wreath products, simultaneously generalizing graph products and\u0000generalized wreath products. Extending various prior results in this direction\u0000including soficity of generalized wreath products cite{gao2024soficity}, B.\u0000Hayes and A. Sale cite{HayesSale}, and soficity of graph products cite{CHR,\u0000charlesworth2021matrix}, we show that graph wreath products are sofic if the\u0000action and acting groups are sofic. These results provide several new examples\u0000of sofic groups in a systematic manner.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A latticed total K-theory","authors":"Qingnan An, Chunguang Li, Zhichao Liu","doi":"arxiv-2408.15941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.15941","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a new invariant was built towards the classification of\u0000separable C*-algebras of real rank zero, which we call latticed total K-theory.\u0000A classification theorem is given in terms of such an invariant for a large\u0000class of separable C*-algebras of real rank zero arising from the extensions of\u0000finite and infinite C*-algebras. Many algebras with both finite and infinite\u0000projections can be classified.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ideal separation property for reduced group $C^*$-algebras","authors":"Are Austad, Hannes Thiel","doi":"arxiv-2408.14880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.14880","url":null,"abstract":"We say that an inclusion of a $*$-algebra $A$ into a $C^*$-algebra $B$ has\u0000the ideal separation property if closed ideals in $B$ can be recovered by their\u0000intersection with $A$. Such inclusions have attractive properties from the\u0000point of view of harmonic analysis and noncommutative geometry. We establish\u0000several permanence properties of locally compact groups for which $L^1(G)\u0000subseteq C^*_{mathrm{red}}(G)$ has the ideal separation property.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"398 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universal covering groups of unitary groups of von Neumann algebras","authors":"Pawel Sarkowicz","doi":"arxiv-2408.13710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.13710","url":null,"abstract":"We give a short and simple proof, utilizing the pre-determinant of P. de la\u0000Harpe and G. Skandalis, that the universal covering group of the unitary group\u0000of a II$_1$ von Neumann algebra $mathcal{M}$, when equipped with the norm\u0000topology, splits algebraically as the direct product of the self-adjoint part\u0000of its center and the unitary group $U(mathcal{M})$. Thus, when $mathcal{M}$\u0000is a II$_1$ factor, the universal covering group of $U(mathcal{M})$ is\u0000algebraically isomorphic to the direct product $mathbb{R} times\u0000U(mathcal{M})$. In particular, the question of P. de la Harpe and D. McDuff of\u0000whether the universal cover of $U(mathcal{M})$ is a perfect group is answered\u0000in the negative.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Khintchine inequality for central Fourier series on non-Kac compact quantum groups","authors":"Sang-Gyun Youn","doi":"arxiv-2408.13519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.13519","url":null,"abstract":"The study of Khintchin inequalities has a long history in abstract harmonic\u0000analysis. While there is almost no possibility of non-trivial Khintchine\u0000inequality for central Fourier series on compact connected semisimple Lie\u0000groups, we demonstrate a strong contrast within the framework of compact\u0000quantum groups. Specifically, we establish a Khintchine inequality with\u0000operator coefficients for arbitrary central Fourier series in a large class of\u0000non-Kac compact quantum groups. The main examples include the Drinfeld-Jimbo\u0000$q$-deformations $G_q$, the free orthogonal quantum groups $O_F^+$, and the\u0000quantum automorphism group $G_{aut}(B,psi)$ with a $delta$-form $psi$.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The inter-relationship between isomorphisms of commutative and isomorphisms of non-commutative $log$-algebras","authors":"Rustam Abdullaev, Azizkhon Azizov","doi":"arxiv-2408.13527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.13527","url":null,"abstract":"This paper establishes a necessary and sufficient condition for the\u0000coincidence of non-commutative $log$-algebras constructed from different exact\u0000normal semifinite traces. Consequently, we provide a criterion for the\u0000isomorphism of $log$-algebras built on non-commutative von Neumann algebras\u0000with different exact normal semifinite traces. Additionally, we demonstrate a\u0000connection between the isomorphism of non-commutative $log$-algebras and the\u0000isomorphism of the corresponding $log$-algebras constructed on the center of\u0000these von Neumann algebras. Furthermore, we present a necessary and sufficient\u0000condition for the isomorphism of $log$-algebras derived from different von\u0000Neumann algebras of type $I_n$.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conditional representation stability, classification of $*$-homomorphisms, and eta invariants","authors":"Rufus Willett","doi":"arxiv-2408.13350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.13350","url":null,"abstract":"A quasi-representation of a group is a map from the group into a matrix\u0000algebra (or similar object) that approximately satisfies the relations needed\u0000to be a representation. Work of many people starting with Kazhdan and\u0000Voiculescu, and recently advanced by Dadarlat, Eilers-Shulman-So{}rensen and\u0000others, has shown that there are topological obstructions to approximating\u0000unitary quasi-representations of groups by honest representations, where\u0000`approximation' is understood to be with respect to the operator norm. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether approximation is possible if\u0000the known obstructions vanish, partially generalizing work of Gong-Lin and\u0000Eilers-Loring-Pedersen for the free abelian group of rank two, and the Klein\u0000bottle group. We show that this is possible, at least in a weak sense, for some\u0000`low-dimensional' groups including fundamental groups of closed surfaces,\u0000certain Baumslag-Solitar groups, free-by-cyclic groups, and many fundamental\u0000groups of three manifolds. The techniques used in the paper are $K$-theoretic: they have their origin in\u0000Baum-Connes-Kasparov type assembly maps, and in the Elliott program to classify\u0000$C^*$-algebras; Kasparov's bivariant KK-theory is a crucial tool. The key new\u0000technical ingredients are: a stable uniqueness theorem in the sense of\u0000Dadarlat-Eilers and Lin that works for non-exact $C^*$-algebras; and an\u0000analysis of maps on $K$-theory with finite coefficients in terms of the\u0000relative eta invariants of Atiyah-Patodi-Singer. Despite the proofs going\u0000through $K$-theoretic machinery, the main theorems can be stated in elementary\u0000terms that do not need any $K$-theory.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimal covers with continuity-preserving transfer operators for topological dynamical systems","authors":"Kevin Aguyar Brix, Jeremy B. Hume, Xin Li","doi":"arxiv-2408.11917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2408.11917","url":null,"abstract":"Given a non-invertible dynamical system with a transfer operator, we show\u0000there is a minimal cover with a transfer operator that preserves continuous\u0000functions. We also introduce an essential cover with even stronger continuity\u0000properties. For one-sided sofic subshifts, this generalizes the Krieger and\u0000Fischer covers, respectively. Our construction is functorial in the sense that\u0000certain equivariant maps between dynamical systems lift to equivariant maps\u0000between their covers, and these maps also satisfy better regularity properties.\u0000As applications, we identify finiteness conditions which ensure that the\u0000thermodynamic formalism is valid for the covers. This establishes the\u0000thermodynamic formalism for a large class of non-invertible dynamical systems,\u0000e.g. certain piecewise invertible maps. When applied to semi-'etale groupoids,\u0000our minimal covers produce 'etale groupoids which are models for\u0000$C^*$-algebras constructed by Thomsen. The dynamical covers and groupoid covers\u0000are unified under the common framework of topological graphs.","PeriodicalId":501114,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Operator Algebras","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142195051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}