Characterizing group C^*-algebras through their unitary groups: the abelian case

DOI10.1515/FORUM.2010.043MaRDI QIDQ3580711zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ana María Ródenas, Jorge Galindo

Publication date 13 August 2010

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3687

zbMATH Keywords

group \(C^*\)-algebraunitary group, \(K_1\)-group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Character groups and dual objects (43A40) Topological (K)-theory (19L99) Whitehead groups and (K_1) (19B99)

Abstract: We study to what extent group $C^{a}st$-algebras are characterized by their unitary groups. A complete characterization of which Abelian group $C^{a}st$-algebras have isomorphic unitary groups is obtained. We compare these results with other unitary-related invariants of $C^{a}st(Gamma)$, such as the $K$-theoretic $K_1(C^{a}st(Gamma))$ and find that $C^{a}st$-algebras of nonisomorphic torsion-free Abelian groups may have isomorphic $K_1$-groups, in sharp contrast with the well-known fact that $C^{a}st(Gamma)$ (even $Gamma$) is characterized by the topological group structure of its unitary group when $Gamma$ is torsion-free and Abelian.

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