Generalized Powers averaging for Commutative Crossed Products

Tattwamasi Amrutam (University of Houston)

Thursday 11th February, 2021 16:00-17:00 Please contact the organizers for Zoom coordinates

Abstract

In 1975, Powers’ proved that the free group on two generators is a C*-simple group. The key insight in Power's proof of the C*-simplicity is that the left regular representation of ð”½₂ satisfies Dixmier type averaging property. Using the pioneering work of Kalantar-Kennedy, it was shown by Haagerup and Kennedy independently that the C*-simplicity of the group Γ is equivalent to the group having Powers' averaging property. In this talk, we introduce a generalized version of Powers’ averaging property for commutative crossed products. Using the notion of generalized Furstenberg boundary introduced by Kawabe and Naghavi (independently), we show that the simplicity of the commutative crossed products C(X) â‹Š_r Γ (for minimal Γ-spaces X) is equivalent to the crossed product having generalized Powers’ averaging. As an application, we will show that every intermediate C*-subalgebra A of the form C(Y) â‹Š_r Γ ⊆ A ⊆ C(X) â‹Š_r Γ is simple for an inclusion C(Y) ⊂ C(X) of minimal Γ-spaces whenever C(Y) â‹Š_r Γ is simple. This is a joint work with Dan Ursu.

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