Finite digraphs and KMS states
The paper contains a description of the KMS states and ground states of a generalized gauge action on the C*-algebra of a finite graph.
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K. Thomsen
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Relative K-homology and normal operators
Let $A$ be a C*-algebra, $J \subset A$ a C*-subalgebra, and let $B$ be a stable C*-algebra. Under modest assumptions we organize invertible C*-extensions of $A$ by $B$ that are trivial when restricted onto $J$ to become a group $Ext_J^{-1}(A,B)$, which can be computed by a six-term exact sequence which generalizes the excision six-term exact sequence in the first variable of $KK$-theory. Subsequently we investigate the relative K-homology which arises from the group of relative extensions by specializing to abelian C*-algebras. It turns out that this relative K-homology carries substantial information also in the operator theoretic setting from which the BDF theory was developed and we conclude the paper by extracting some of this information on approximation of normal operators.
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On the lack of inverses to C*-extensions related to property T groups
Using ideas of S. Wassermann on non-exact $C^*$-algebras and property T groups, we show that one of his examples of non-invertible C*-extensions is not semi-invertible. To prove this, we show that a certain element vanishes in the asymptotic tensor product. We also show that a modification of the example gives a C*-extension which is not even invertible up to homotopy.
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On the asymptotic tensor norm
We introduce a new asymptotic one-sided and symmetric tensor norm, the latter of which can be considered as the minimal tensor norm on the category of separable C*-algebras with homotopy classes of asymptotic homomorphisms as morphisms. We show that the one-sided asymptotic tensor norm differs in general from both the minimal and the maximal tensor norms and we discuss its relation to semi-invertibility of C*-extensions.
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Semi-invertible extensions and asymptotic homomorphisms
We consider the semigroup $Ext(A,B)$ of extensions of a separable C*-algebra $A$ by a stable C*-algebra $B$ modulo unitary equivalence and modulo asymptotically split extensions. This semigroup contains the group $Ext^{-1/2}(A,B)$ of invertible elements (i.e. of semi-invertible extensions). We show that the functor $Ext^{1/2}(A,B)$ is homotopy invariant and that it coincides with the functor of homotopy classes of asymptotic homomorphisms from $C(\mathbb T)\otimes A$ to $M(B)$ that map $SA\subseteq C(\mathbb T)\otimes A$ into $B$.
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Extensions of C*-algebras and translation invariant asymptotic homomorphisms
Let $A$, $B$ be C*-algebras; $A$ separable, $B$ $σ$-unital and stable. We introduce a notion of translation invariance for asymptotic homomorphisms from $SA=C_0(\mathbb R)\otimes A$ to $B$ and show that the Connes-Higson construction applied to any extension of $A$ by $B$ is homotopic to a translation invariant asymptotic homomorphism. In the other direction we give a construction which produces extensions of $A$ by $B$ out of such a translation invariant asymptotic homomorphism. This leads to our main result; that the homotopy classes of extensions coincide with the homotopy classes of translation invariant asymptotic homomorphisms.
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The Connes-Higson construction is an isomorphism
Let $A$ be a separable $C^*$-algebra and $B$ a stable $C^*$-algebra containing a strictly positive element. We show that the group $\Ext(SA,B)$ of unitary equivalence classes of extensions of $SA$ by $B$, modulo the extensions which are asymptotically split, coincides with the group of homotopy classes of such extensions. This is done by proving that the Connes-Higson construction gives rise to an isomorphism between $\Ext(SA,B)$ and the $E$-theory group $E(A,B)$ of homotopy classes of asymptotic homomorphisms from $S^2A$ to $B$.
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Asymptotically split extensions and E-theory
We show that the E-theory of Connes and Higson can be formulated in terms of C*-extensions in a way quite similar to the way in which the KK-theory of Kasparov can. The essential difference is that the role played by split extensions should be taken by asymptotically split extensions. We call an extension of a C*-algebra $A$ by a stable C*-algebra $B$ asymptotically split if there exists an asymptotic homomorphism consisting of right inverses for the quotient map. An extension is called semi-invertible if it can be made asymptotically split by adding another extension to it. Our main result is that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between asymptotic homomorphisms from $SA$ to $B$ and homotopy classes of semi-invertible extensions of $S^2A$ by $B$.
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