On the classification problem for nuclear \(C^*\)-algebras (Q2389104)

The author exhibits a counterexample to Elliott's classification conjecture for simple, separable, and nuclear \(C^*\)-algebras whose construction is elementary, and demonstrates the necessity of extremely fine invariants in distinguishing both approximate unitary equivalence classes of automorphisms of such algebras and isomorphism classes of the algebras themselves. This implies that existing results on the classification of simple, unital AH-algebras via the Elliott invariant of K-theoretic data are the best possible, and that these cannot be improved by the addition of continuous homotopy invariant functors to the Elliott invariant.