C^*-simplicity for groups with non-elementary convergence group actions

MaRDI QIDQ5396780zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yoshifumi Matsuda, Shin-Ichi Oguni, Saeko Yamagata

Publication date 3 February 2014

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.2618

zbMATH Keywords

convergence group actionsPowers groupsreduced group \(C^*\)-algebrasrelatively hyperbolic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55)

Abstract: We prove that a countable group with an effective minimal non-elementary convergence group action is a Powers group. More strongly we prove that it is a strongly Powers group and thus its non-trivial subnormal subgroups are $C^{\ast }$-simple.

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(8)

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• Elementary constructions of non-discrete 𝐶*-simple groups
• C*-SIMPLE GROUPS: AMALGAMATED FREE PRODUCTS, HNN EXTENSIONS, AND FUNDAMENTAL GROUPS OF 3-MANIFOLDS
• \(C^*\)-simple groups without free subgroups
• Non-cocompact Group Actions and -Semistability at Infinity
• Simplicity of algebras associated to non-Hausdorff groupoids
• \(C^*\)-simplicity of locally compact Powers groups
• Relatively hyperbolic groups are \(C^*\)-simple.

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