Finite dimensional representations of the soft torus

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-01-06150-0MaRDI QIDQ2759021zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Søren Eilers, Ruy Exel

Publication date 10 December 2001

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9810165

zbMATH Keywords

faithful tracial statehyponormal operatorresidually finite dimensional \(C^\ast\)-algebrassoft torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Quantizations, deformations for selfadjoint operator algebras (46L65) Noncommutative topology (46L85) Subnormal operators, hyponormal operators, etc. (47B20)

Abstract: The soft tori constitute a continuous deformation, in a very precise sense, from the commutative C*-algebra C(T^2) to the highly non-commutative C*-algebra C*(F_2). Since both of these C*-algebras are known to have a separating family of finite dimensional representations, it is natural to ask whether that is also the case for the soft tori. We show that this is in fact the case.

Review text

Let \(\varepsilon\geq 0\) and \(A_\varepsilon\) denote the universal (unital) \(C^\ast\)-algebra generated by a pair of unitaries \(u,v\) subject to the relation \(\|uv-vu\|\leq \varepsilon\). This class of algebras, referred to as soft tori, naturally interpolates \(C(T^2)\) (\(\varepsilon\geq 2\)) and the algebra \(F_2\) (\(\varepsilon\geq 2\)). It is proved that \(A_\varepsilon\) is residually finite dimensional (RFD) in the sense that it possess a separating family of finite dimensional representations. The proof is based on showing that \(A_\varepsilon\) is a cross product of an auxiliary RFD algebra by the group \(Z\). As an immediate corollary it is shown that \(A_\varepsilon\) has a faithful tracial state and that any hyponormal operator in \(A_\varepsilon\) is normal.

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