Injectivity and projectivity in analysis and topology

Projective and injective objects in functional analysis (46M10) Fairly general properties of topological spaces (54D99) Transformation groups and semigroups (topological aspects) (54H15)

Abstract: We give new proofs for many injectivity results in analysis that make more careful use of the duality between unital abelian C*-algebras and compact Hausdorff spaces. We then extend many of these results to incorporate group actions. Our approach uses only elementary topological constructions and eliminates the need for results from the theory of Boolean algebras and AW*-algebras that were used in earlier proofs.

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In this survey article, the authors give new proofs of results on injectivity where an additional group action is also involved. In the first section, the authors recall standard injectivity results (commutative) as in Section 11 of H. E. Lacey's monograph [\textit{H. E. Lacey}, `The isometric theory of classical Bananch spaces', Die Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Band 208. Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag (1974; Zbl 0285.46024)]. By an action of a discrete group \(G\) on a topological space \(X\), it is meant that there is an identity preserving homeomorphism from \(G\) into the group of homeomorphisms of \(X\). This leads to the corresponding \(G\) notions of rigidity, projective etc. The authors show that when \(G\) is countable, a minimal left ideal in \(\beta G\) is \(G\)-projective.

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