On order units in the augmentation ideal

DOI10.1090/PROC/16699MaRDI QIDQ6423745OpenAlexFDO

Authors Piotr Mizerka, Piotr W. Nowak

Publication date 18 January 2023

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/16699

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ideals in associative algebras (16D25) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Linear operators in (C^*)- or von Neumann algebras (47C15)

Abstract: It was shown by Ozawa that the Laplacian is an order unit in the augmentation ideal of the group ring, and this fact was crucial in his characterization of property $(T)$ in terms of positivity of certain group ring elements. Here we show that for groups with finite abelianization there is a deeper reason for this fact: the augmentation ideal is an image of a positive map from a matrix algebra that maps the identity matrix to the Laplacian.

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• Absolute matrix order ideals in absolute matrix order unit spaces

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