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Christopher Schafhauser

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arXiv2016

Crossed products of nuclear C*-algebras by free groups and their traces

We study the matricial field (MF) property for certain reduced crossed product C*-algebras and their traces. Using classification techniques and induced K-theoretic dynamics, we show that reduced crossed products of ASH-algebras of real rank zero by free groups are MF if and only if they are stably finite. We also examine traces on these crossed products and show they always admit certain finite dimensional approximation properties. Combining these results with recent progress in Elliott's Classification Program, it follows that if $A$ is a separable, simple, unital, nuclear, monotracial C*-algebra satisfying the UCT, then $A \rtimes_λ \mathbb{F}_r$ is MF for any action $α$. Appealing to a result of Ozawa, Rørdam, and Sato, we show that discrete groups of the form $G \rtimes \mathbb{F}_r$ with $G$ amenable admit MF reduced group C*-algebras In the process, some new permanence properties of MF algebras are obtained which are of independent interest. In particular, minimal tensor products of MF algebras are again MF provided one of the factors is exact.

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arXiv2016

Traces on Topological Graph Algebras

Given a topological graph $E$, we give a complete description of tracial states on the C*-algebra $\mathrm{C}^*(E)$ which are invariant under the gauge action; there is an affine homeomorphism between the space of gauge invariant tracial states on $\mathrm{C}^*(E)$ and Radon probability measures on the vertex space $E^0$ which are, in a suitable sense, invariant under the action of the edge space $E^1$. It is shown that if $E$ has no cycles, then every tracial state on $\mathrm{C}^*(E)$ is gauge invariant. When $E^0$ is totally disconnected, the gauge invariant tracial states on $\mathrm{C}^*(E)$ are in bijection with the states on $\mathrm{K}_0(\mathrm{C}^*(E))$.

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arXiv2015

Cuntz-Pimsner Algebras, Crossed Products, and $K$-Theory

Suppose $A$ is a $C^*$-algebra and $H$ is a $C^*$-correspondence over $A$. If $H$ is regular in the sense that the left action of $A$ is faithful and is given by compact operators, then we compute the $K$-theory of $\mathcal{O}_A(H) \rtimes \mathbb{T}$ where the action is the usual gauge action. The case where $A$ is an AF-algebra is carefully analyzed. In particular, if $A$ is AF, we show $\mathcal{O}_A(H) \rtimes \mathbb{T}$ is AF. Combining this with Takai duality and an AF-embedding theorem of N. Brown, we show the conditions AF-embeddability, quasidiagonality, and stable finiteness are equivalent for $\mathcal{O}_A(H)$. If $H$ is also assumed to be regular, these finiteness conditions can be characterized in terms of the ordered $K$-theory of $A$.

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arXiv2014

Finiteness Properties of Certain Topological Graph Algebras

Let $E = (E^0, E^1, r, s)$ be a topological graph with no sinks such that $E^0$ and $E^1$ are compact. We show that when $C^*(E)$ is finite, there is a natural isomorphism $C^*(E) \cong C(E^\infty) \rtimes \mathbb{Z}$, where $E^\infty$ is the infinite path space of $E$ and the action is given by the backwards shift on $E^\infty$. Combining this with a result of Pimsner, we show the properties of being AF-embeddable, quasidiagonal, stably finite, and finite are equivalent for $C^*(E)$ and can be characterized by a natural "combinatorial" condition on $E$.

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arXiv2014

AF-Embeddings of Graph Algebras

Let $E$ be a countable directed graph. We show that $C^*(E)$ is AF-embeddable if and only if no loop in $E$ has an entrance. The proof is constructive and is in the same spirit as the Drinen-Tomforde desingularization.

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