C^*-simplicity and the unique trace property for discrete groups

DOI10.1007/S10240-017-0091-2zbMATH Open1391.46071arXiv1410.2518OpenAlexW3104086839MaRDI QIDQ679650FDOQ679650

Authors: Emmanuel Breuillard, Mehrdad Kalantar, Matthew Kennedy, Narutaka Ozawa 

Publication date: 19 January 2018

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A discrete group is said to be C*-simple if its reduced C*-algebra is simple, and is said to have the unique trace property if its reduced C*-algebra has a unique tracial state. A dynamical characterization of C*-simplicity was recently obtained by the second and third named authors. In this paper, we introduce new methods for working with group and crossed product C*-algebras that allow us to take the study of C*-simplicity a step further, and in addition to settle the longstanding open problem of characterizing groups with the unique trace property. We give a new and self-contained proof of the aforementioned characterization of C*-simplicity. This yields a new characterization of C*-simplicity in terms of the weak containment of quasi-regular representations. We introduce a convenient algebraic condition that implies C*-simplicity, and show that this condition is satisfied by a vast class of groups, encompassing virtually all previously known examples as well as many new ones. We also settle a question of Skandalis and de la Harpe on the simplicity of reduced crossed products. Finally, we introduce a new property for discrete groups that is closely related to C*-simplicity, and use it to prove a broad generalization of a theorem of Zimmer, originally conjectured by Connes and Sullivan, about amenable actions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2518

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zbMATH Keywords

amenablediscrete groupsreduced \(C^*\)-algebraunique trace property

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Group algebras of locally compact groups (22D15)

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