On non-zero values of the central homological dimension of C*-algebras

Lykova, Z. A.

Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 34 (1992) no. 3, pp. 369-378

Résumé

The paper is related to the area which was recently called topological homology [3, 6, 12, 16, 4]. We consider questions associated with the central Hochschild cohomology of C*-algebras. The study of the latter was begun by J. Phillips and I. Raeburn in [9, 10], when they were investigating some problems of the theory of perturbations of C*-algebras. In [8] we obtained a description of the structure of C*-algebras with central bidimension zero: it was proved that these C*-algebras are unital and have continuous trace. In the special case of separable and a priori unital C*-algebras this statement was proved by J. Phillips and I. Raeburn in [11] with the help of a different approach. The question was raised. Which values can the central bidimension of C*-algebras take? In the present paper it is shown that, for any CCR-algebra A having at least one infinite-dimensional irreducible representation, the central bidimension and the global central homological dimension of A are greater than one. At the same time it is proved that there exist CCR-algebras which are centrally biprojective, but which have both dimensions equal to one. This situation contrasts with the state of affairs in the “traditional” theory of the Banach Hochschild cohomology. Recall [3, Ch. 5] that the bidimension and the global homological dimension of any infinite-dimensional biprojective C*-algebra are equal to two. Besides, there is no CCR-algebra of bidimension one (respectively, global homological dimension one). See [7].

Détail

DOI : 10.1017/S0017089500008971

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