Boundaries of reduced C^-algebras of discrete groups

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2014-0111MaRDI QIDQ2397741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mehrdad Kalantar, Matthew Kennedy

Publication date 23 May 2017

Published in Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4359

zbMATH Keywords

Furstenberg boundaryexact \(C^*\)-algebrareduced \(C^*\)-algebradiscrete exact groupequivariant injective envelopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations (17B37) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Special aspects of infinite or finite groups (20F99)

Abstract: For a discrete group G, we consider the minimal C*-subalgebra of $el{l}^{i}nfty(G)$ that arises as the image of a unital positive G-equivariant projection. This algebra always exists and is unique up to isomorphism. It is trivial if and only if G is amenable. We prove that, more generally, it can be identified with the algebra $C(partia{l}_{F}G)$ of continuous functions on Furstenberg's universal G-boundary $partia{l}_{F}G$. This operator-algebraic construction of the Furstenberg boundary has a number of interesting consequences. We prove that G is exact precisely when the G-action on $partia{l}_{F}G$ is amenable, and use this fact to prove Ozawa's conjecture that if G is exact, then there is an embedding of the reduced C*-algebra $mathrm{C}_r^{\ast }(G)$ of G into a nuclear C*-algebra which is contained in the injective envelope of $mathrm{C}_r^{\ast }(G)$. It is a longstanding open problem to determine which groups are C*-simple, in the sense that the algebra $mathrm{C}_r^{\ast }(G)$ is simple. We prove that this problem can be reformulated as a problem about the structure of the G-action on the Furstenberg boundary. Specifically, we prove that a discrete group G is C*-simple if and only if the G-action on the Furstenberg boundary is topologically free. We apply this result to prove that Tarski monster groups are C*-simple. This provides another solution to a problem of de la Harpe (recently answered by Olshanskii and Osin) about the existence of C*-simple groups with no free subgroups.

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