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$K$-theory of Furstenberg Transformation Group ${{\text{C}}^{\text{*}}}$-algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Kamran Reihani
Kamran Reihani*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA, e-mail: [email protected]
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This paper studies the $K$-theoretic invariants of the crossed product ${{C}^{*}}$-algebras associated with an important family of homeomorphisms of the tori ${{\mathbb{T}}^{n}}$ called Furstenberg transformations. Using the Pimsner–Voiculescu theorem, we prove that given $n$, the $K$-groups of those crossed products whose corresponding $n\,\times \,n$ integer matrices are unipotent of maximal degree always have the same rank ${{a}_{n}}$. We show using the theory developed here that a claim made in the literature about the torsion subgroups of these $K$-groups is false. Using the representation theory of the simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}\left( 2,\,\mathbb{C} \right)$, we show that, remarkably, ${{a}_{n}}$ has a combinatorial significance. For example, every ${{a}_{2n+1}}$ is just the number of ways that 0 can be represented as a sum of integers between –$n$ and $n$ (with no repetitions). By adapting an argument of van Lint (in which he answered a question of Erdős), a simple explicit formula for the asymptotic behavior of the sequence $\{{{a}_{n}}\}$ is given. Finally, we describe the order structure of the ${{K}_{0}}$-groups of an important class of Furstenberg crossed products, obtaining their complete Elliott invariant using classification results of H. Lin and N. C. Phillips.

Keywords

19K1419K9946L3546L8005A1505A1605A1715A3617B1017B2037B0554H20K-theorytransformation group C*-algebraFurstenberg transformationAnzai transformationminimal homeomorphismpositive coneminimal homeomorphism
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 65 , Issue 6 , 01 December 2013 , pp. 1287 - 1319
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2013

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