Self-similar groups, operator algebras and Schur complement

DOI10.3934/JMD.2007.1.323zbMATH Open1133.46029arXivmath/0612421OpenAlexW2032776754MaRDI QIDQ2467033FDOQ2467033

Authors: R. I. Grigorchuk, Volodymyr Nekrashevych 

Publication date: 18 January 2008

Published in: Journal of Modern Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the first part of the article we introduce $C^{\ast }$-algebras associated to self-similar groups and study their properties and relations to known algebras. The algebras are constructed as sub-algebras of the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra (and its homomorphic images) associated with the self-similarity of the group. We study such properties as nuclearity, simplicity and Morita equivalence with algebras related to solenoids. The second part deals with the Schur complement transformations of elements of self-similar algebras. We study properties of such transformations and apply them to the spectral problem for Markov type elements in self-similar $C^{\ast }-$algebras. This is related to the spectral problem of the discrete Laplace operator on groups and graphs. Application of the Schur complement method in many situations reduces the spectral problem to study of invariant sets (very often of the type of a ``strange attractor) of a multidimensional rational transformation. A number of illustrating examples is provided. Finally we observe a relation between the Schur complement transformations and Bartholdi-Kaimanovich-Virag transformations of random walks on self-similar groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612421

Recommendations

• C*-algebras and self-similar groups
• \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras associated with self-similar sets
• Self-similar graphs, a unified treatment of Katsura and Nekrashevych \(C^\ast\)-algebras
• Limit dynamical systems and \(C^*\)-algebras from self-similar graph actions
• Self-similar \(k\)-graph \(C^*\)-algebras

zbMATH Keywords

simplicityCuntz-Pimsner algebraMorita equivalenceself-similar groupsnuclearityBartholdi-Kaimanovich-Virag transformationsrandom walks on self-similar groupsSchur complement transformationsspectral problem of the discrete Laplace operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Invariant manifold theory for dynamical systems (37D10) Dynamics of complex polynomials, rational maps, entire and meromorphic functions; Fatou and Julia sets (37F10) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10)

Cited In (18)

• Atomic representations of Cuntz algebras
• The Koopman representation for self-similar groupoid actions
• Dual graphs and modified Barlow-Bass resistance estimates for repeated barycentric subdivisions
• Some topics in the dynamics of group actions on rooted trees.
• Ideals of the core of \(C^\ast\)-algebras associated with self-similar maps
• On the simplicity of Nekrashevych algebras of contracting self-similar groups
• Spectral dynamics for the infinite dihedral group and the lamplighter group
• Functionally recursive rings of matrices -- two examples
• Representations of Cuntz algebras associated to quasi-stationary Markov measures
• \(L\)-algebras, self-similarity, and \(l\)-groups
• Lie algebra associated with the group of finitary automorphisms of \(p\)-adic tree.
• Joint spectrum and the infinite dihedral group
• On spectral properties of the Schreier graphs of the Thompson group 𝐹
• Decomposition of Garside groups and self-similar \(L\)-algebras
• Harmonic analysis on the Pascal graph
• Spectra of Schreier graphs of Grigorchuk's group and Schroedinger operators with aperiodic order
• Spectra of Cayley graphs of the lamplighter group and random Schrödinger operators
• Self-similar groups and holomorphic dynamics: renormalization, integrability, and spectrum

This page was built for publication: Self-similar groups, operator algebras and Schur complement

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2467033)