On the Structure of Cuntz Semigroups in (Possibly) Nonunital C*-algebras

Tikuisis, Aaron Peter ; Toms, Andrew

Canadian mathematical bulletin, Tome 58 (2015) no. 2, pp. 402-414

Résumé

We examine the ranks of operators in semi-finite ${{C}^{*}}$ -algebras as measured by their densely defined lower semicontinuous traces. We first prove that a unital simple ${{C}^{*}}$ -algebra whose extreme tracial boundary is nonempty and finite contains positive operators of every possible rank, independent of the property of strict comparison. We then turn to nonunital simple algebras and establish criteria that imply that the Cuntz semigroup is recovered functorially from the Murray–von Neumann semigroup and the space of densely defined lower semicontinuous traces. Finally, we prove that these criteria are satisfied by not-necessarily-unital approximately subhomogeneous algebras of slow dimension growth. Combined with results of the first author, this shows that slow dimension growth coincides with $Z$ -stability for approximately subhomogeneous algebras.

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CMB-2014-040-5

Mots-clés : 46L35, 46L05, 46L80, 47L40, 46L85, Nuclear C*-algebras, Cuntz semigroup, dimension functions, stably projectionless C*-algebras, approximately subhomogeneous C*-algebras, slow dimension growth

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