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Rachid El Harti

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arXiv2024

Hermitian crossed product Banach algebras

We show that the Banach *-algebra $\ell^1(G,A,α)$, arising from a C*-dynamical system $(A,G,α)$, is an hermitian Banach algebra if the discrete group $G$ is finite or abelian (or more generally, a finite extension of a nilpotent group). As a corollary, we obtain that $\ell^1(\mathbb{Z},C(X),α)$ is hermitian, for every topological dynamical system $Σ= (X, σ)$, where $σ: X\to X$ is a homeomorphism of a compact Hausdorff space $X$ and the action is $α_n(f)=f\circ σ^{-n}$ with $n\in\mathbb{Z}$.

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arXiv2017

Amenable crossed product Banach algebras associated with a class of $\mathrm{C}^\ast$-dynamical systems. II

We prove that the crossed product Banach algebra $\ell^1(G,A;α)$ that is associated with a ${\mathrm C}^\ast$-dynamical system $(A,G,α)$ is amenable if $G$ is a discrete amenable group and $A$ is a strongly amenable ${\mathrm C}^\ast$-algebra. This is a consequence of the combination of a more general result with Paterson's characterisation of strongly amenable unital $\mathrm{C}^\ast$-algebras in terms of invariant means for their unitary groups.

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arXiv2016

Nonsimplicity of certain universal $\mathrm{C}^\ast$-algebras

Given $n\geq 2$, $z_{ij}\in\mathbb{T}$ such that $z_{ij}=\overline z_{ji}$ for $1\leq i,j\leq n$ and $z_{ii}=1$ for $1\leq i\leq n$, and integers $p_1,...,p_n\geq 1$, we show that the universal $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebra generated by unitaries $u_1,...,u_n$ such that $u_i^{p_i}u_j^{p_j}=z_{ij}u_j^{p_j}u_i^{p_i}$ for $1\leq i,j \leq n$ is not simple if at least one exponent $p_i$ is at least two. We indicate how the method of proof by `working with various quotients' can be used to establish nonsimplicity of universal $\mathrm{C}^*$-algebras in other cases.

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arXiv2012

Profinite pro-C*-algebras and pro-C*-algebras of profinite groups

We define the profinite completion of a C*-algebra, which is a pro-C*-algebra, as well as the pro-C*-algebra of a profinite group. We show that the continuous representations of the pro-C*-algebra of a profinite group correspond to the unitary representations of the group which factor through a finite group. We define natural homomorphisms from the C*-algebra of a locally compact group and its profinite completion to the pro-C*-algebra of the profinite completion of the group. We give some conditions for injectivity or surjectivity of these homomorphisms, but an important question remains open.

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arXiv2006

Bounded and unitary elements in pro-C^*-algebras

A pro-C^*-algebra is a (projective) limit of C^*-algebras in the category of topological *-algebras. From the perspective of non-commutative geometry, pro-C^*-algebras can be seen as non-commutative k-spaces. An element of a pro-C^*-algebra is bounded if there is a uniform bound for the norm of its images under any continuous *-homomorphism into a C^*-algebra. The *-subalgebra consisting of the bounded elements turns out to be a C^*-algebra. In this paper, we investigate pro-C^*-algebras from a categorical point of view. We study the functor (-)_b that assigns to a pro-C^*-algebra the C^*-algebra of its bounded elements, which is the dual of the Stone-Čech-compactification. We show that (-)_b is a coreflector, and it preserves exact sequences. A generalization of the Gelfand-duality for commutative unital pro-C^*-algebras is also presented.

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