Rigidity Conjectures

Abstract: We prove several rigidity results for corona

C^{*}

-algebras and v{C}ech-Stone remainders under the assumption of Forcing Axioms. In particular, we prove that a strong version of Todorv{c}evi'c's

O C A

and Martin's Axiom at level

a l e p h_{1}

imply: (i) that if

X

and

Y

are locally compact second countable topological spaces, then all homeomorphisms between

and

are induced by homeomorphisms between cocompact subspaces of

X

and

Y

; (ii) that all automorphisms of the corona algebra of a separable

C^{*}

-algebra are trivial in a topological sense; (iii) that if

A

is a unital separable infinite-dimensional

C^{*}

-algebra, the corona algebra of

A o t i m e s m a t h c a l K (H)

does not embed into the Calkin algebra. All these results do not hold under the Continuum Hypothesis.

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