Almost commuting matrices, cohomology, and dimension

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Abstract: We investigate which relations for families of commuting matrices are stable under small perturbations, or in other words, which commutative C-algebras C(X) are matricially semiprojective. Extending the works of Davidson, Eilers-Loring-Pedersen, Lin and Voiculescu on almost commuting matrices, we identify the precise dimensional and cohomological restrictions for finite-dimensional spaces X and thus obtain a complete characterization: C(X) is matricially semiprojective if and only if dim(X)leq2 and H2(X;mathbbQ)=0. We give several applications to lifting problems for commutative C-algebras, in particular to liftings from the Calkin algebra and to l-closed C-algebras in the sense of Blackadar.



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