A solution of the maximality problem for one-parameter dynamical systems

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.02.026MaRDI QIDQ1744561zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 23 April 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06261

Arveson spectrum Connes spectrum maximal subalgebra one-parameter dynamical system

Banach algebras of continuous functions, function algebras (46J10) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55)

Abstract: We prove a maximality theorem for one-parameter dynamical systems including multiplier one-parameter dynamical systems. Our main result is new even for one-parameter actions on commutative multiplier algebras including the algebra of bounded continuous functions on the set of real numbers acted upon by translations. The methods we develop and use in our characterization of maximality include harmonic analysis, topological vector spaces and operator algebra techniques.

Review text

It is a classical result by Wermer that the subalgebra of \(C(\mathbb{T})\), the continuous functions on the torus, consisting of all those elements that allow an analytic extension to the open unit disk, is a maximal norm-closed subalgebra of \(C(\mathbb{T})\). The existence of a maximal subalgebra was generalized by various authors to other algebras \(A\) than \(C(\mathbb{T})\) equipped with a continuous action by the group of real numbers \(\mathbb{R}\), where the maximal subalgebra is characterized by those elements \(x\) of \(A\) whose Arveson spectrum \(sp_\alpha(x)\) lies within a certain prescribed subset of \(\hat{ \mathbb{R}}\). The definition of the Arveson spectrum and similar spectra and sets used in this paper is somewhat technical and starts by integrating over the orbit of an element of the algebra multiplied by an element \(f \in L^1(\mathbb{R})\), and asks for some orthogonality conditions with respect to such \(f\), subsets of \(\mathbb{R}\) and of the dual space \(\hat{ \mathbb{R}}\). The author generalizes many of the above mentioned results by considering the situtation where the algebra \(A\) is a \(C^*\)-algebra and topologically also a dual pair of Banach spaces \((A,F)\) equipped with a continuous action \(\alpha\) by \(\mathbb{R}\). This includes known results where \(A\) is a \(C^*\)-algebra (\(F= A^*\)) or a von Neumann algebra (\(F=A_*\)), or, not so much considered before, the multiplier algebra \(M(B)\) of a \(C^*\)-algebra \(B\) with the strict topology (\(F=B^*\)). The main result of the paper says the following. For a closed subset \(K\) of \(\hat{ \mathbb{R}}\), let \(A^\alpha(K)= \{a \in A\mid sp_\alpha(a) \subseteq K\}\), and similarly so but more technically for other subsets of \(\hat{ \mathbb{R}}\). Then the subalgebra \(A^\alpha([0,\infty))\) of \(A\) is a maximal \(F\)-closed subalgebra of \(A\) if and only if a certain technical spectral condition is satisfied. A new consequence of this is that \(H^\infty(\mathbb{R}) \cap C_b(\mathbb{R})\) is a maximal strictly closed subalgebra of the multiplier algebra \(C_b(\mathbb{R})\).

Recommendations

Cites work

Cited in

(7)

This page was built for publication: A solution of the maximality problem for one-parameter dynamical systems

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1744561)