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Decomposition rank of approximately subhomogeneous C*-algebras

  • George A. Elliott , Zhuang Niu , Luis Santiago and Aaron Tikuisis EMAIL logo
From the journal Forum Mathematicum

Abstract

It is shown that every Jiang–Su stable approximately subhomogeneous C*-algebra has finite decomposition rank. This settles a key direction of the Toms–Winter conjecture for simple approximately subhomogeneous C*-algebras. A key step in the proof is that subhomogeneous C*-algebras are locally approximated by a certain class of more tractable subhomogeneous algebras, namely a non-commutative generalization of the class of cell complexes. The result is applied, in combination with other recent results, to show classifiability of crossed product C*-algebras associated to minimal homeomorphisms with mean dimension zero.


Communicated by Christopher D. Sogge


Funding source: University of Wyoming

Award Identifier / Grant number: start-up grant

Funding source: Simons Foundation

Award Identifier / Grant number: collaboration grant

Funding source: University of Aberdeen

Award Identifier / Grant number: start-up grant

Funding statement: George A. Elliott has been supported by NSERC. Zhuang Niu has been supported by NSERC, a start-up grant from the University of Wyoming, and a Simons Foundation collaboration grant. Luis Santiago has been supported by the University of Toronto and a start-up grant from the University of Aberdeen. Aaron Tikuisis has been supported by NSERC and a start-up grant from the University of Aberdeen. All authors were supported by the Fields Institute through the “Thematic program on abstract harmonic analysis, Banach and operator algebras.” Work on this article advanced perceptibly at the EPSRC- and LMS-funded conference “Classification, structure, amenability, and regularity” in Glasgow, and at the BIRS workshop “Dynamics and -algebras: amenability and soficity.”

Acknowledgements

Aaron Tikuisis had numerous long discussions with Wilhelm Winter about the main problem solved in this article. We would like to thank Wilhelm Winter for these, and for comments on early versions of the article. We would also like to acknowledge Rob Archbold, Etienne Blanchard, Huaxin Lin, Chris Phillips, and Stuart White for discussions and comments that helped to shape this paper. Finally, we would like to thank the referees for helpful comments and suggestions.

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Received: 2020-01-22
Revised: 2020-01-28
Published Online: 2020-03-10
Published in Print: 2020-07-01

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