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Banach spaces whose algebra of bounded operators has the integers as their $K_0$-group

K-Theory and Homology 2015-04-06 v2 Functional Analysis Operator Algebras

Abstract

Let XX and YY be Banach spaces such that the ideal of operators which factor through YY has codimension one in the Banach algebra B(X)\mathscr{B}(X) of all bounded operators on XX, and suppose that YY contains a complemented subspace which is isomorphic to YYY\oplus Y and that XX is isomorphic to XZX\oplus Z for every complemented subspace ZZ of YY. Then the K0K_0-group of B(X)\mathscr{B}(X) is isomorphic to the additive group Z\mathbb{Z} of integers. A number of Banach spaces which satisfy the above conditions are identified. Notably, it follows that K0(B(C([0,ω1])))ZK_0(\mathscr{B}(C([0,\omega_1])))\cong\mathbb{Z}, where C([0,ω1])C([0,\omega_1]) denotes the Banach space of scalar-valued, continuous functions defined on the compact Hausdorff space of ordinals not exceeding the first uncountable ordinal ω1\omega_1, endowed with the order topology.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2606,
  title  = {Banach spaces whose algebra of bounded operators has the integers as their $K_0$-group},
  author = {Tomasz Kania and Piotr Koszmider and Niels Jakob Laustsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2606},
  year   = {2015}
}