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Publications and source records attributed to Roberto Conti.
We introduce new properties of Haagerup-type for Fell bundles over discrete groups and discuss their relationship with Haagerup properties for the associated $C^*$-algebras. In particular, our results on Fell bundles associated with twisted unital $C^*$-dynamical systems extend previous results known in the untwisted case.
We develop some tools, of an algebraic and combinatorial nature, which enable us to obtain a detailed description of certain quadratic subgroups of the (outer) reduced Weyl group of the Cuntz algebra ${\mathcal O}_n$. In particular, for $n=4$ our findings give a self-contained theoretical interpretation of the groups tabulated in [AJS18], which were obtained with the help of a computer. For each of these groups we provide a set of generators. A prominent role in our analysis is played by a certain family of subgroups of the symmetric group of a discrete square which we call bicompatible.
We study the asymptotic distribution of integers sharing the same rooted-tree structure that encodes their complete prime factorization tower. For each tree we derive an explicit density formula depending only on a pair $(m,k)$, the density signature of the tree, up to a suitable multiplicative scalar factor and introduce the corresponding tree zeta function, which generalizes the prime zeta function. Classical results such as the prime number theorem and later work by Landau appear as special cases.
We introduce and study actions of Fell bundles over discrete groups on Hilbert bundles. Many examples of such actions are presented. We discuss the connection with positive definite bundle maps between Fell bundles, culminating in the unital case in a Gelfand-Raikov type theorem. We also use these actions to construct C*-correspondences over cross-sectional C*-algebras of Fell bundles.
The diadic $C^*$-algebra $\cQ_2$ contains canonically a copy of the Cuntz algebra $\cO_2$. It is shown that the inclusion $\cO_2 \subset \cQ_2$ is $C^*$-irreducible and rigid. It follows that the injective envelopes of these two $C^*$-algebras are $*$-isomorphic.
We extend the spectral theory of commutative C*-categories to the non full-case, introducing a suitable notion of spectral spaceoid provinding a duality between a category of "non-trivial" *-functors of non-full commutative C*-categories and a category of Takahashi morphisms of "non-full spaceoids" (here defined). As a byproduct we obtain a spectral theorem for a non-full generalization of imprimitivity Hilbert C*-bimodules over commutative unital C*-algebras via continuous sections vanishing at infinity of a Hilbert C*-line-bundle over the graph of a homeomorphism between open subsets of the corresponding Gel'fand spectra of the C*-algebras.
We introduce a natural concept of positive definiteness for bundle maps between Fell bundles over (possibly different) discrete groups and describe several examples. Such maps induce completely positive maps between the associated full cross-sectional $C^*$-algebras in a functorial way. Under the assumption that the kernel of the homomorphism connecting the groups under consideration is amenable, they also induce completely positive maps between the associated reduced cross-sectional $C^*$-algebras. As an application, we define an approximation property for a Fell bundle over a discrete group which generalizes Exel's approximation property and still implies the weak containment property. Both approximation properties coincide when the unit fibre is nuclear.
The occurrence and the distribution of patterns of trees associated to natural numbers are investigated. Bounds from above and below are proven for certain natural quantities.
Using Araki-Yamagami's characterization of quasi-equivalence for quasi-free representations of the CCRs, we provide an abstract criterion for the existence of isomorphisms of second quantization local von Neumann algebras induced by Bogolubov transformations in terms of the respective one particle modular operators. We discuss possible applications to the problem of local normality of vacua of Klein-Gordon fields with different masses.
In this paper we study the groups of isometries and the set of bi-Lipschitz automorphisms of spectral triples from a metric viewpoint, in the propinquity framework of Latremoliere. In particular we prove that these groups and sets are compact in the automorphism group of the spectral triple C*-algebra with respect to the Monge-Kantorovich metric, which induces the topology of pointwise convergence. We then prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the convergence of the actions of various groups of isometries, in the sense of the covariant version of the Gromov-Hausdorff propinquity -- a noncommutative analogue of the Gromov-Hausdorff distance -- when working in the context of inductive limits of quantum compact metric spaces and metric spectral triples. We illustrate our work with examples including AF algebras and noncommutative solenoids.
We revisit Fourier's approach to solve the heat equation on the circle in the context of (twisted) reduced group C*-algebras, convergence of Fourier series and semigroups associated to negative definite functions. We introduce some heat properties for countably infinite groups and investigate when they are satisfied. Kazhdan's property (T) is an obstruction to the weakest property, and our findings leave open the possibility that this might be the only one. On the other hand, many groups with the Haagerup property satisfy the strongest version. We show that this heat property implies that the associated heat problem has a unique solution regardless of the choice of the initial datum.
We consider an infinite sequence of rooted trees naturally emerging in a number-theoretical context. We advance some ideas on its structure by discussing some elementary properties. Some of those properties are shown to be related to classical results or conjectures in number theory.
Suitable duals of multimodules are introduced and used to provide transposition contravariant right semi-adjunctions (and dualitites under reflexivity). Several additional notions on multimodules are discussed: generalized morphisms and involutions; tensor products and contractions; inner products; first-order differential operators. A construction of an (involutive) colored properad of multimodules is suggested.
A Fej\'{e}r-type theorem is proved within the framework of $C^*$-algebras associated with certain irreversible algebraic dynamical systems. This makes it possible to strengthen a result on the structure of the relative commutant of a family of generating isometries in a boundary quotient.
Every unitary solution of the Yang-Baxter equation (R-matrix) in dimension $d$ can be viewed as a unitary element of the Cuntz algebra ${\mathcal O}_d$ and as such defines an endomorphism of ${\mathcal O}_d$. These Yang-Baxter endomorphisms restrict and extend to endomorphisms of several other $C^*$- and von Neumann algebras and furthermore define a II$_1$ factor associated with an extremal character of the infinite braid group. This paper is devoted to a detailed study of such Yang-Baxter endomorphisms. Among the topics discussed are characterizations of Yang-Baxter endomorphisms and the relative commutants of the various subfactors they induce, an endomorphism perspective on algebraic operations on R-matrices such as tensor products and cabling powers, and properties of characters of the infinite braid group defined by R-matrices. In particular, it is proven that the partial trace of an R-matrix is an invariant for its character by a commuting square argument. Yang-Baxter endomorphisms also supply information on R-matrices themselves, for example it is shown that the left and right partial traces of an R-matrix coincide and are normal, and that the spectrum of an R-matrix can not be concentrated in a small disc. Upper and lower bounds on the minimal and Jones indices of Yang-Baxter endomorphisms are derived, and a full characterization of R-matrices defining ergodic endomorphisms is given. As examples, so-called simple R-matrices are discussed in any dimension $d$, and the set of all Yang-Baxter endomorphisms in $d=2$ is completely analyzed.
We continue our study of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra associated to a twisted (unital, discrete) C*-dynamical system and discuss how the various notions of equivalence of such systems are reflected at the algebra-level. As an application, we show that the amenability of a system, as defined in our previous work, is preserved under Morita equivalence.
A complete description is provided for the unitary normalizer of the diagonal Cartan subalgebra $\mathcal{D}_2$ in the $2$-adic ring $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{Q}_2$, which generalizes and unifies analogous results for Cuntz and Bunce-Deddens algebras. Furthermore, the inclusion $\mathcal{O}_2\subset\mathcal{Q}_2$ is proved not to be regular. Finally, countably many novel permutative endomorphisms of $\mathcal{Q}_2$ are exhibited with prescribed images of the generator $U$.
Following a procedure due to V. Jones, using suitably normalized elements in a Temperley-Lieb-Jones (planar) algebra we introduce a 3-parametric family of unitary representations of the Thompson's group $F$ equipped with canonical (vacuum) vectors and study some of their properties. In particular, we discuss the behaviour at infinity of their matrix coefficients, thus showing that these representations do not contain any finite type component. We then focus on a particular representation known to be quasi-regular and irreducible and show that it is inequivalent to itself once composed with a classical automorphism of F. This allows us to distinguish three equivalence classes in our family. Finally, we investigate a family of stabilizer subgroups of $F$ indexed by subfactor Jones indices that are described in terms of the chromatic polynomial. In contrast to the first non-trivial index value for which the corresponding subgroup is isomorphic to the Brown-Thompson's group $F_3$, we show that when the index is large enough this subgroup is always trivial.