Groups acting on products of trees, tiling systems and analytic K-theory

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Authors Jason S. Kimberley, Guyan Robertson

Publication date 26 September 2002

Published in The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5784, https://eudml.org/doc/123024, http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2002/8-7nf.htm

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zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-algebras\(K\)-theoryBM-groupsgroup actions on treesproducts of treesTits buildingstorsion free subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Groups acting on trees (20E08) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: Let $T_1$ and $T_2$ be homogeneous trees of even degree $ge4$. A BM group $Gamma$ is a torsion free discrete subgroup of $aut(T_1)imesaut(T_2)$ which acts freely and transitively on the vertex set of $T_{1}imes{T}_2$. This article studies dynamical systems associated with BM groups. A higher rank Cuntz-Krieger algebra $mathcalA(G)$ is associated both with a 2-dimensional tiling system and with a boundary action of a BM group $Gamma$. An explicit expression is given for the K-theory of $mathcalA(G)$. In particular $K_0=K_1$. A complete enumeration of possible BM groups $G$ is given for a product homogeneous trees of degree 4, and the K-groups are computed.

Review text

It is known that a group that acts freely and cocompactly on a tree is a finitely generated free group. However, a group that acts freely and cocompactly on a product of trees has surprising properties, this has been used by \textit{M. Burger} and \textit{S. Mozes} [e.g., in C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I 324, No. 7, 747-752 (1997; Zbl 0966.20013)] to find such properties. In this article, the authors study torsion free subgroups \(\Gamma\) of \(\Aut(T_1)\times\Aut(T_2)\), where \(T_1\), and \(T_2\) are homogeneous trees of finite degrees and that act freely and transitively of the vertex set of \(T_1\times T_2\). The authors refer to these as BM groups. Next, associated to a BM group, via an appropriate Tits building there is a \(C^*\)-algebra \({\mathcal A}(\Gamma)\). The aim of the paper is the study of the \(K\)-theory of this \(C^*\)-algebra. Their main result is to construct an Abelian group \(C=C(\Gamma)\), completely determined by such a \(\Gamma\) that contains all the necessary ingredients, namely Proposition 5.4: Let \(\Gamma\) be a BM group then \(K_0({\mathcal A}(\Gamma))=K_1({\mathcal A}(\Gamma))=C\otimes\mathbb{Z}^{\text{rank}(C)}\). The authors also provide information about the order of the identity in \(K_0({\mathcal A}(\Gamma))\) and a complete computation of all the groups arising in this fashion when the degree of both trees is 4.

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