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A rigidity framework for Roe-like algebras

Operator Algebras 2025-03-11 v4 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In this memoir we develop a framework to study rigidity problems for Roe-like C*-algebras of countably generated coarse spaces. The main goal is to give a complete and self-contained solution to the problem of C*-rigidity for proper (extended) metric spaces. Namely, we show that (stable) isomorphisms among Roe algebras always give rise to coarse equivalences. The material is organized as to provide a unified proof of C*-rigidity for Roe algebras, algebras of operators of controlled propagation, and algebras of quasi-local operators. We also prove a more refined C*-rigidity statement which has several additional applications. For instance, we can put the correspondence between coarse geometry and operator algebras in a categorical framework, and we prove that the outer automorphism groups of these C*-algebras are all isomorphic to the group of coarse equivalences of the coarse space.

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@article{arxiv.2403.13624,
  title  = {A rigidity framework for Roe-like algebras},
  author = {Diego Martínez and Federico Vigolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.13624},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

The exposition of the material has been reorganized to a memoir form. More details and examples have been added, some minor issues have been addressed. 108 pages

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