Central amalgamation of groups and the RFD property

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2021.108131zbMATH Open1491.46052OpenAlexW4206771115MaRDI QIDQ2064482FDOQ2064482

Authors Tatiana Shulman 

Publication date 6 January 2022

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00052

zbMATH Keywords

amalgamated free productpolycyclic groupresidually finite dimensionalHNN-extensionfinite-dimensional representation\(\mathrm{C}^*\)-algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Free products of (C^*)-algebras (46L09) Representation theory of linear operators (47A67)

Abstract: It is an old and challenging topic to investigate for which discrete groups G the full group C*-algebra C*(G) is residually finite-dimensional (RFD). In particular not much is known about how the RFD property behaves under fundamental constructions, such as amalgamated free products and HNN-extensions. In [CS19] it was proved that central amalgamated free products of virtually abelian groups are RFD. In this paper we prove that this holds much beyond this case. Our method is based on showing a certain approximation property for characters induced from central subgroups. In particular it allows us to prove that free products of polycyclic-by-finite groups amalgamated over finitely generated central subgroups are RFD. On the other hand we prove that the class of RFD C*-algebras (and groups) is not closed under central amalgamated free products. Namely we give an example of RFD groups (in fact finitely generated amenable RF groups) whose central amalgamated free product is not RFD, moreover it is not even maximally almost periodic. This answers a question of Khan and Morris [KM82].

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