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Crossed products by minimal homeomorphisms

Operator Algebras 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Let X be an infinite compact metric space with finite covering dimension and let h be a minimal homeomorphism of X. Let A be the associated crossed product C*-algebra. We show that A has tracial rank zero whenever the image of K_0 (A) in the affine functions on the tracial state space of A is dense. As a consequence, we show that these crossed product C*-algebras are in fact simple AH algebras with real rank zero. When X is connected and h is further assumed to be uniquely ergodic, then the above happens if and only if the rotation number associated to h has irrational values. By applying the classification theorem for nuclear simple C*-algebras with tracial rank zero, we show that two such dynamical systems have isomorphic crossed products if and only if they have isomorphic scaled ordered K-theory.

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@article{arxiv.math/0408291,
  title  = {Crossed products by minimal homeomorphisms},
  author = {Huaxin Lin and N. Christopher Phillips},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0408291},
  year   = {2007}
}

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