Reduced free products of unital AH algebras and Blackadar and Kirchberg's MF algebras (Q2919627)

The main result of the paper says that the reduced free product of a finite family of unital separable AH \(C^\ast\)-algebras with faithful traces is an MF algebra. (An MF algebra is a \(C^\ast\)-algebra that can be embedded into \(\prod M_{n_k}(C)/\sum M_{n_k}(C)\) for a sequence of positive integers \((n_k)\).) Also it is shown that the reduced free products of AH algebras with respect to faithful tracial states are not quasidiagonal. Using these results a lot of new examples of unital separable \(C^\ast\)-algebras (obtained as reduced free products) for which the BDF extension semigroup is not a group are discovered.