Bass-Serre trees of amalgamated free product C^*-algebras

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNX312MaRDI QIDQ5243458zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 November 2019

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08837

Cuntz-Pimsner algebra Bass-Serre tree reduced amalgamated free product

(K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Classifications of (C^*)-algebras (46L35) Free products of (C^*)-algebras (46L09)

Abstract: For any reduced amalgamated free product

m a t h r m C^{*}

-algebra

(A, E) = (A_{1}, E_{1}) a s t_{D} (A_{2}, E_{2})

, we introduce and study a canonical ambient

m a t h r m C^{*}

-algebra

D e l t a m a t h b f T (A, E)

of

A

which generalizes the crossed product arising from the canonical action of an amalgamated free product group on the compactification of the associated Bass--Serre tree. Using an explicit identification of

D e l t a m a t h b f T (A, E)

with a Cuntz--Pimsner algebra we prove two kinds of "amenability" results for

D e l t a m a t h b f T (A, E)

; nuclearity and universality. As applications of our framework, we provide new conceptual, and simpler proofs of several known theorems on approximation properties, embeddability, and

K K

-theory for reduced amalgamated free product

m a t h r m C^{*}

-algebras.

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