Irreducible representations of Bost-Connes systems (Q344484)

Summary: The classification problem of Bost-Connes systems was studied by Cornelissen and Marcolli partially, but still remains unsolved. In this paper, we give a representation-theoretic approach to this problem. We generalize the result of \textit{M. Laca} and \textit{I. Raeburn} [Math. Ann. 318, No.~3, 433--451 (2000; Zbl 1032.46536)], which is concerned with the primitive ideal space of the Bost-Connes system for \(\mathbb{Q}\). As a consequence, the Bost-Connes \(C^*\)-algebra for a number field \(K\) has \(h^1_K\)-dimensional irreducible representations and does not have finite-dimensional irreducible representations for the other dimensions, where \(h^1_K\) is the narrow class number of \(K\). In particular, the narrow class number is an invariant of Bost-Connes \(C^\ast\)-algebras.