Traces on reduced group C^*-algebras

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12101MaRDI QIDQ4601480zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew Kennedy, Sven Raum

Publication date 16 January 2018

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05903

zbMATH Keywords

locally compact grouptraceamenable radicalreduced \(C^*\)-algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30)

Abstract: In this short note we prove that the reduced group C*-algebra of a locally compact group admits a non-zero trace if and only if the amenable radical of the group is open. This completely answers a question raised by Forrest, Spronk and Wiersma.

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