Quasidiagonal extensions and sequentially trivial asymptotic homomorphisms (Q1588378)

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Quasidiagonal extensions and sequentially trivial asymptotic homomorphisms
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    Quasidiagonal extensions and sequentially trivial asymptotic homomorphisms (English)
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    30 November 2001
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    An extension of \(C^*\)-algebras \[ 0\to B \to E\to A\to 0 \] is named weakly quasidiagonal if there is an increasing sequence \(P_1 \leq P_2 \leq P_3 \leq\dots\) of projections in the multiplier algebra \({\mathcal M}(E)\) of \(E\) such that: 1) for all \(n\in {\mathbb N}: P_nE\subset B,\) 2) for all \(e\in E:\) \(\lim_{n\to \infty}(P_ne-eP_n)=0;\) 3) for all \(b\in B:\) \(\lim_{n\to\infty}P_nb=0.\) An extension is quasidiagonal when it is weakly quasidiagonal and the projections \(\{P_n\}\) can be found in \(B.\) A crucial difference between the notion of quasidiagonal and weakly quasidiagonal extensions is that weakly quasidiagonal extensions always exist. Let \(\text{Ext}^{-1}_q(A,B)\) and \(Q(A,B)\) denote the sub-semigroups in \(\text{Ext}^{-1}(A,B)\) consisting of the elements which can be represented by a weakly quasidiagonal extension, and a quasidiagonal extension, respectively. \(\text{Ext}^{-1}_q(A,B)\) and \(Q(A,B)\) are subgroups when \(A\) or \(B\) is a suspension (although \(Q(A,B)\) can be empty). The main result of the paper is the following Theorem 6.2: Assume that \(A\) is KK-equivalent to a separable Abelian \(C^*\)-algebra. It follows that \(\text{Ext}^{-1}_q(SA,B\otimes {\mathcal K})\simeq \text{Pext}(K_*(A),K_{*-1}(B)),\) where \(SA\) is a suspension of \(A.\) This isomorphisms are natural in \(A\) and \(B.\) (Recall that for groups \(G\) and \(H\) the group \(\text{Pext}(G,H)\) is the subgroup of the pure extensions in the group \(\text{Ext}(G,H)\)).
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    operator \(K\)-theory
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    extension theory
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    extension of \(C^*\)-algebras
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    weakly quasidiagonal
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    multiplier algebra
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    weakly quasidiagonal extensions
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    suspension
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    KK-equivalent
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