The soft torus and applications to almost commuting matrices

DOI10.2140/PJM.1993.160.207MaRDI QIDQ689738zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruy Exel

Publication date 17 November 1993

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/ae1f9a35101e93f8f5a201ca10a3abcdf1d3f11d

zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theory\(K\)-theory invariantequality of certain invariants associated to almost commuting unitary matricessoft torusuniversal \(C^*\)-algebrawinding number invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory (15A60) Index theory (19K56) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80)

Review text

The ``soft torus \(A_ \varepsilon\) is defined to be the universal \(C^*\)-algebra generated by a pair of unitaries for which the commutator has norm less than or equal to \(\varepsilon\). We show that the \(K\)-theory of \(A_ \varepsilon\) is naturally isomorphic to the \(K\)-theory of the algebra of continuous functions on the two-torus, although these algebras are not homotopically equivalent. This result is applied to give a new proof of the equality of certain invariants associated to almost commuting unitary matrices, namely the \(K\)-theory invariant and the winding number invariant.

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