Joint spectrum and the infinite dihedral group

DOI10.1134/S0081543817040095MaRDI QIDQ1675239zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 October 2017

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01547

measure-preserving transformation unitary representation Fuglede-Kadison determinant singular homology group group \(C^*\)-algebra infinite dihedral group Koopman representation projective joint spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Several-variable operator theory (spectral, Fredholm, etc.) (47A13) Representation theory of groups (20C99)

Abstract: For a tuple

A = (A_{1}, A_{2}, ..., A_{n})

of elements in a unital Banach algebra

m a t h c a l B

, its {em projective joint spectrum}

P (A)

is the collection of

z i n {m a t h b b C}^{n}

such that the multiparameter pencil

A (z) = z_{1} A_{1} + z_{2} A_{2} + c d o t s + z_{n} A_{n}

is not invertible. If

m a t h c a l B

is the group

C^{*}

-algebra for a discrete group

G

generated by

A_{1}, A_{2}, ..., A_{n}

with respect to a representation

h o

, then

P (A)

is an invariant of (weak) equivalence for

h o

. This paper computes the joint spectrum of

(1, a, t)

for the infinite dihedral group

D_{i n f t y} = < a, t | a^{2} = t^{2} = 1 >

with respect to the left regular representation

l a m b d a_{D}

, and gives an in-depth analysis on its properties. A formula for the Fuglede-Kadison determinant of the pencil

R (z) = 1 + z_{1} a + z_{2} t

is obtained, and it is used to compute the first singular homology group of the joint resolvent set

P^{c} (R)

. The joint spectrum gives new insight into some earlier studies on groups of intermediate growth, through which the corresponding joint spectrum of

(1, a, t)

with respect to the Koopman representation

h o

(constructed through a self-similar action of

D_{i n f t y}

on a binary tree) can be computed. It turns out that the joint spectra with respect to the two representations coincide. Interestingly, this fact leads to a self-similar realization of the group

C^{*}

-algebra

C^{*} (D_{i n f t y})

. This self-similarity of

C^{*} (D_{i n f t y})

is manifested by some dynamical properties of the joint spectrum.

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