On graph products of multipliers and the Haagerup property for $C^*$-dynamical systems

Abstract

We consider the notion of the graph product of actions of groups $\left\{G_v\right\}$ on a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ and show that under suitable commutativity conditions the graph product action $\bigstar_Γα_v: \bigstar_ΓG_v \curvearrowright \mathcal{A}$ has the Haagerup property if each action $α_v: G_v \curvearrowright \mathcal{A}$ possesses the Haagerup property. This generalizes the known results on graph products of groups with the Haagerup property. To accomplish this, we introduce the graph product of multipliers associated to the actions and show that the graph product of positive definite multipliers is positive definite. These results have impacts on left transformation groupoids and give an alternative proof of a known result for coarse embeddability. We also record a cohomological characterization of the Haagerup property for group actions.