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We introduce and study a natural notion of selflessness for inclusions of C*-probability spaces, which in particular implies that all intermediate C*-algebras are selfless in the sense of Robert. We identify natural sources of selfless…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Ben Hayes , Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Gregory Patchell , Leonel Robert

It is shown that the reduced C*-algebra of a nontrivial linear group $\Gamma<GL_{d}(k)$ with trivial amenable radical is selfless. Thus selflessness and simplicity coincide for reduced C*-algebras of linear groups. Similar results are…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Itamar Vigdorovich

We find a general family of selfless inclusions in reduced amalgamated free products of C*-algebras. Apart from generalizing prior works due to McClanahan, Ivanov and Omland, our work yields a few other applications. We present a short new…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-29 David Gao , Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Gregory Patchell , Lizzy Teryoshin

We study selflessness in the general setting of reduced free products of $C^*$-algebras. Towards this end, we develop a suitable theory of rapid decay for filtrations in arbitrary $C^*$-probability spaces. We provide several natural…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Ben Hayes , Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Leonel Robert

Examples of simple, separable, unital, purely infinite $C^*$--algebras are constructed, including: (1) some that are not approximately divisible; (2) those that arise as crossed products of any of a certain class of $C^*$--algebras by any…

funct-an · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Kenneth J. Dykema , Mikael Rordam

We give a number of new characterizations of the Jiang-Su algebra Z, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in terms of C*-algebraic, dynamical, topological and K-theoretic conditions. Along the way we study divisibility properties of C*-algebras,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-01-16 Mikael Rordam , Wilhelm Winter

We consider three notions of divisibility in the Cuntz semigroup of a C*-algebra, and show how they reflect properties of the C*-algebra. We develop methods to construct (simple and non-simple) C*-algebras with specific divisibility…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Leonel Robert , Mikael Rordam

We prove that the reduced C*-algebras of centerless mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups are simple, as are the irreducible pure subgroups of mapping class groups and the analogous subgroups of outer…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Martin R. Bridson , Pierre de la Harpe

An example is given of a simple, unital C*-algebra which contains an infinite and a non-zero finite projection. This C*-algebra is also an example of an infinite simple C*-algebra which is not purely infinite. A corner of this C*-algebra is…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Mikael Rordam

We prove that the reduced group C*-algebras of infinite countable discrete groups having topologically-free extreme boundaries, or more generally groups that satisfy certain combinatorial property including all acylindrically hyperbolic…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Narutaka Ozawa

We introduce the notion of a computably strongly self-absorbing C*-algebra and show that the following C*-algebras are computably strongly self-absorbing: the Cuntz algebras $\mathcal{O}_2$ and $\mathcal{O}_\infty$, the UHF algebra…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Isaac Goldbring

We associate reduced and full C*-algebras to arbitrary rings and study the inner structure of these ring C*-algebras. As a result, we obtain conditions for them to be purely infinite and simple. We also discuss several examples.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2009-06-01 Xin Li

Let G be a finite group acting on {1,...,n}. For any C*-algebra A, this defines an action of \alpha of G on A^{\otimes n}. We show that if A tensorially absorbs a UHF algebra of infinite type, the Jiang-Su algebra, or is approximately…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-08-02 Ilan Hirshberg , Wilhelm Winter

Under mild assumptions, we show that reduced free products and reduced graph products of $\mathrm{C}^\ast$-algebras are selfless in the sense of L. Robert, without assuming the rapid decay property. In particular, our main theorems yield…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Felipe Flores , Mario Klisse , Mícheál Ó Cobhthaigh , Matteo Pagliero

We prove that for every $n\geq 2$, the reduced group $C^*$-algebras of the countable free groups $C^*_r(\mathbb{F}_n)$ have strict comparison. Our method works in a general setting: for $G$ in a large family of non-amenable groups,…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Tattwamasi Amrutam , David Gao , Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli , Gregory Patchell

We prove simplicity and pure infiniteness results for a certain class of labelled graph $C^*$-algebras. We show, by example, that this class of unital labelled graph $C^*$-algebras is strictly larger than the class of unital graph…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-01-15 T. Bates , D. A. Pask

Say that a separable, unital C*-algebra D is strongly self-absorbing if there exists an isomorphism $\phi: D \to D \otimes D$ such that $\phi$ and $id_D \otimes 1_D$ are approximately unitarily equivalent $*$-homomorphisms. We study this…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrew S. Toms , Wilhelm Winter

Suppose that A is a C*-algebra for which A is isomorphic to A tensor Z, where Z is the Jiang-Su algebra: a unital, simple, stably finite, separable, nuclear, infinite dimensional C*-algebra with the same Elliott invariant as the complex…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-11-24 Mikael Rordam

To an arbitrary directed graph we associate a row-finite directed graph whose C*-algebra contains the C*-algebra of the original graph as a full corner. This allows us to generalize results for C*-algebras of row-finite graphs to…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Drinen , M. Tomforde

This paper argues that the unitary Cuntz semigroup, introduced in [10] and termed Cu$_1$, contains crucial information regarding the classification of non-simple C$^*$-algebras. We exhibit two (non-simple) C$^*$-algebras that agree on their…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Laurent Cantier
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