On inductive limits of homogeneous C*-algebras with diagonal morphisms between the building blocks.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780494219171
Description: A class of C*-algebras which can be written as inductive limits of homogeneous C*-algebras with diagonal morphisms between their building blocks is studied. A generalization of Urysohn's Lemma is established and used to show such an algebra has the approximately constant eigenvalue map property if, and only if, it is simple. Some applications of this equivalence, namely, every simple algebra in this class has stable rank one and the property SP, are presented. Any simple AH algebra with slow dimension growth also has the property SP. Chapter 4 discusses a form of uniqueness theorem: an inductive limit of homogeneous C*-algebras whose spectra are compact subsets of   R  is unchanged when we relabel (by means of continuously varying permutations) the eigenvalue patterns of the morphisms between the building blocks. This statement still holds when the spectra of the building blocks are more general compact metric spaces, provided certain conditions hold. A necessary and sufficient condition for a simple algebra in the class under consideration to have real rank zero provided certain conditions hold is also given. (This condition is known in the special case of Goodearl algebras.)
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-01, Section: B, page: 0326.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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