Connective C^-algebras

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Abstract: Connectivity is a homotopy invariant property of separable C*-algebras which has three notable consequences: absence of nontrivial projections, quasidiagonality and a more geometric realization of KK-theory for nuclear C*-algebras using asymptotic morphisms. The purpose of this paper is to further explore the class of connective C*-algebras. We give new characterizations of connectivity for exact and for nuclear separable C*-algebras and show that an extension of connective separable nuclear C*-algebras is connective. We establish connectivity or lack of connectivity for C*-algebras associated to certain classes of groups: virtually abelian groups, linear connected nilpotent Lie groups and linear connected semisimple Lie groups.


This article further studies the class of connective separable \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras. Being connective is a homotopy invariant property that implies being quasi-diagonal and having no non-zero projections. A nuclear \(C^{\ast}\)-algebra is connective if and only if it is homotopy symmetric, which means that its \(E\)-theory may be computed without suspensions. This article develops some necessary or sufficient criteria for being connective, especially in the nuclear case. In particular, any extension of connective separable nuclear \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras remains connective. For nuclear \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras, connectivity depends only on the homeomorphism type of the primitive ideal space. A discrete group is called connective if its augmentation ideal is connective. There are crystallographic groups that are connective and those which are not. It is studied when the reduced group \(C^{\ast}\)-algebra of a Lie group is connective. In particular, a nilpotent connected Lie group has connective group \(C^{\ast}\)-algebra if and only if it is not compact; and a linear connected real reductive Lie group is connective if and only if the group has a compact Cartan subgroup if and only if there are no non-zero projections in the reduced group \(C^{\ast}\)-algebra.



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