\(C^*\) exponential length of commutators unitaries in AH-algebras (Q2073902)

Summary: For each unital \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\), we denote \(\operatorname{cel}_{\operatorname{CU}}(A)=\sup\{\operatorname{cel}(u):u\in\operatorname{CU}(A)\} \), where \(\operatorname{cel}(u)\) is the exponential length of \(u\) and \(\operatorname{CU}(A)\) is the closure of the commutator subgroup of \(U_0(A)\). In this paper, we prove that \(\operatorname{cel}_{\operatorname{CU}}(A)\geq2\pi\) provided that \(A\) is an AH-algebra with slow dimension growth whose real rank is not zero. On the other hand, we prove that \(\operatorname{cel}_{\operatorname{CU}}(A)\leq 2\pi\) when \(A\) is an AH-algebra with ideal property and of no dimension growth (if we further assume that \(A\) is not of real rank zero, we have \(\operatorname{cel}_{\operatorname{CU}}(A)=2\pi \)).