Groups with simple reduced \(C^*\)-algebras (Q1573563)
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Groups with simple reduced \(C^*\)-algebras (English)
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20 August 2001
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Consider one infinite conjugacy class group \(\Gamma\) and a subgroup \(\Gamma_0\) of finite index. It is shown that if one of the reduced \(C^*\)-algebras \(C^*_\lambda(\Gamma)\) and \(C^*_\lambda(\Gamma_0)\) is simple, the other is also simple. If one of them has a unique tracial state, the other has such one, too. The main ingredient of the proof is a 1977 theorem of D. Poguntke.
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infinite conjugacy class group
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subgroup
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finite index
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reduced \(C^*\)-algebras
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