Symmetrized non-commutative tori revisited

Abstract: For the flip action of

m a t h b b Z_{2}

on an

n

-dimensional noncommutative torus

A_{h} e t a,

where

h e t a

is an

n i m e s n

antisymmetric matrix, we show that the map

i_{*} : m a t h r m K_{0} (A_{h} e t a) i g h t a r r o w m a t h r m K_{0} (A_{h} e t a t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2})

induced by the natural inclusion map sends generators to a set of elements which can be extended to provide a set of generators of

m a t h r m K_{0} (A_{h} e t a t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2})

. This clarifies one crucial step in the computation of the K-theory of the C

^{*}

-algebra

A_{h} e t a t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2}

by Farsi and Watling in [FW93], and proves

m a t h r m K_{0} (A_{h e t a} t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2}) c o n g m a t h b b Z^{3 c d o t 2^{n - 1}},

m a t h r m K_{1} (A_{h e t a} t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2}) = 0.

Our methods also provide an explicit basis of

m a t h r m K_{0} (A_{h e t a} t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2}) .

As an application, for a simple

n

-dimensional torus

A_{h e t a},

using classification techniques, we determine the isomorphism class of

A_{h e t a} t i m e s m a t h b b Z_{2}

in terms of the isomorphism class of

A_{h e t a} .

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