Stable rank of the $C^*$-algebras of amenable Lie groups of type I (Q4486895)

Let \(G\) be a simply connected amenable Lie group of type I and let \(C^*(G)\) be the group \(C^*\)-algebra of \(G\). The space of all 1-dimensional representations of \(G\) is denoted by \(\widehat G_1\), and let \(\vee\) and \(\wedge\) denote the maximum and the minimum, respectively. The main result of the paper is the following estimation of the stable rank \(sr(C^*(G))\) of \(C^* (G)\) by the complex dimension of the spaces of characters: \[ \bigl(2 \wedge \dim_C (\widehat R_1/G) \bigr)\vee \dim_C\widehat G_1\leq sr\bigl(C^*(G) \bigr)\leq (2 \vee \dim_C\widehat G_1)\wedge (\dim_C R\vee 1), \] where \(R\) is the radical of \(G\). It is also proved that if \(G\) and \(H\) are connected amenable Lie groups of type I, then \[ sr\bigl(C^* (G)\otimes C^*(H) \bigr)\leq sr\bigl(C^* (G)\bigr)+ sr \bigl(C^* (H)\bigr). \]