Some groups whose reduced \(C^*\)-algebra is simple

DOI10.1007/BF02698898zbMath0827.22001OpenAlexW1970376392MaRDI QIDQ1805184

Michael G. Cowling, Mohammed El Bachir Bekka, Pierre De la Harpe

Publication date: 29 November 1995

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=PMIHES_1994__80__117_0

zbMATH Keywords

latticediscrete grouplocally compact groupssimplicityreduced \(C^*\)-algebraBorel's density theoremconnected semisimple algebraic groupZariski dense subgroupconnected real semisimple Lie groupgroup of \(k\)-rational pointsreduced crossed product \(C^*\)-algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Simple groups (20E32) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

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