Amenability for unitary groups of C*-algebras

MaRDI QIDQ6437519zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vadim Alekseev, Max Schmidt, Andreas Thom

Publication date 22 May 2023

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46L99)

Abstract: In this note we state a conjecture that characterizes unital C*-algebras for which the unitary group is amenable as a topological group in the norm topology. We prove the conjecture for simple, separable, stably finite, unital, $mathcalZ$-stable, UCT C*-algebras with torsionfree K_0 using the progress on the Elliott classification program for nuclear C*-algebras as well as Pestov's study of amenability of gauge groups. Based on work of Kirchberg, we provide a counterexample to a question of Ng, who proposed a different characterization in earlier work.

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