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Asymptotic unitary equivalence in $C^*$-algebras

Operator Algebras 2013-08-13 v2

Abstract

Let C=C(X)C=C(X) be the unital CC^*-algebra of all continuous functions on a finite CW complex XX and let AA be a unital simple CC^*-algebra with tracial rank at most one. We show that two unital monomorphisms ϕ,ψ:CA\phi, \psi: C\to A are asymptotically unitarily equivalent, i.e., there exists a continuous path of unitaries {ut:t[0,1)}A\{u_t: t\in [0,1)\}\subset A such that limt1utϕ(f)ut=ψ(f)forallC(X), \lim_{t\to 1} u_t^*\phi(f)u_t=\psi(f) {\rm for all} \in C(X), if and only if \beq [\phi]&=&[\psi] {\rm in} KK(C, A), \tau\circ \phi&=&\tau\circ \psi {\rm for all} \tau\in T(A), and \phi^{\dag}&=&\psi^{\dag}, \eneq where T(A)T(A) is the simplex of tracial states of AA and ϕ,ψ:U(M(C))/DU(M(C))\phi^{\dag}, \psi^{\dag}: U(M_{\infty}(C))/DU(M_{\infty}(C))\to U(M(A))/DU(M(A))U(M_{\infty}(A))/DU(M_{\infty}(A)) are induced homomorphisms and where U(M(A))U(M_{\infty}(A)) and U(M(C))U(M_{\infty}(C)) are groups of union of unitary groups of Mk(A)M_k(A) and Mk(C)M_k(C) for all integer k1,k\ge 1, DU(M(A))DU(M_{\infty}(A)) and DU(M(C))DU(M_{\infty}(C)) are commutator subgroups of U(M(A))U(M_{\infty}(A)) and U(M(C)),U(M_{\infty}(C)), respectively. We actually prove a more general result for the case that CC is any general unital AH-algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6610,
  title  = {Asymptotic unitary equivalence in $C^*$-algebras},
  author = {Huaxin Lin and Zhuang Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6610},
  year   = {2013}
}