Some permanence properties of C^*-unique groups

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2003.11.003MaRDI QIDQ1876247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. W. Leung, Chi-Keung Ng

Publication date 16 August 2004

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2003.11.003

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-unique groupamenable groupgroup algebralocally compact group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) (L^1)-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A20)

Review text

A Banach \(*\)-algebra \(A\) is called \(C^*\)-unique if it admits a unique \(C^*\)-norm. Equivalently, every non-trivial ideal of the enveloping \(C^*\)-algebra, \(C^*(A)\), intersects \(A\) non-trivially. A locally compact group \(G\) is called \(C^*\)-unique if its group algebra \(L^1(G)\) is \(C^*\)-unique. The question of which locally compact groups are \(C^*\)-unique, has been investigated by several authors. Evidently, every \(C^*\)-unique group is amenable. However, there exist solvable groups which fail to be \(C^*\)-unique. The present paper contains a number of interesting results. In particular, the authors are interested in permanence properties of \(C^*\)-uniqueness. Recall that if \(G\) and \(H\) are locally compact groups, then \(H\) is said to be a retract of \(G\) if there exist continuous homomorphisms \(i:H\to G\) and \(q :G\to H\) such that \(q\circ i = id_H\). One of the main results is that a (second countable) amenable locally compact group which can be continuously embedded into a linear group over a non-discrete locally compact field, is a retract of a \(C^*\)-unique group (Theorem 2.17). This theorem applies to an amenable connected Lie group \(G\) and its adjoint representation and yields that \(G/Z\), where \(Z\) is the centre of \(G\), is a retract of a \(C^*\)-unique group. Another achievement is Theorem 3.4: Let \(H\) be any discrete group, \(N\) the direct sum of copies \(N_h = \mathbb{Z}\), \(h\in H\), and form the semidirect product \(G = N\times_\alpha H\), where the action \(\alpha\) of \(H\) on \(N\) is defined through multiplication on \(H\). Then \(G\) is \(C^*\)-unique if and only if \(H\) is amenable. In particular, every amenable discrete group is a retract of a \(C^*\)-unique group. These results lead the authors to conjecture that every amenable locally compact group is a retract of a \(C^*\)-unique group. Both, Theorems 2.17 and 3.4, evolve from a certain type of extension result: If \(N\) is a \(C^*\)-unique closed normal subgroup of G and the canonical twisted action of \(G\) on the \(C^*\)-algebra \(C^*(N)\) is free in some sense, then \(G\) is \(C^*\)-unique.

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