Non-commutative lens spaces (Q807949)

We construct non-commutative versions of lens spaces by using their Heegaard splittings and crossed products in \(C^*\)-algebra theory. They are a non-parameter family of \(C^*\)-algebras \(\{L_{\theta}(p,q)\}_{\theta \in {\mathbb{R}}}\) for coprime integers p,q. We realize each of them in three different ways: a fixed point subalgebra of the non-commutative 3-sphere \(S^ 3_{\theta}\), an algebra of \(A_{\theta}\)-valued continuous functions, and a universal \(C^*\)- algebra generated by three normal operators with certain relations. As one example, we have non-commutative versions of a real projective space.