Spectral analysis for automorphisms of UHF \(C^*\)-algebras
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Spectral analysis for automorphisms of UHF \(C^*\)-algebras
zbMATH Open document ID: 0627.46069
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1236(86)90076-5
author: Richard H. Herman
author: Adrian Ocneanu
published in: Journal of Functional Analysis
publication date: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(M_ n\) be the \(n\times n\) complex matrices with normalized trace \(\tau\). Let \(u\in M_ n\) be a unitary operator and let \(u=\sum \exp (it_ k)e_ k\) be the spectral decomposition of u. Let \(\nu_ u\) be the measure defined on the torus \({\mathbb{T}}\) by \(\nu_ u=\sum \tau (e_ k)\delta_{t_ k}\) where \(\delta_ t\) denotes the Dirac measure. The authors show that, given two unitaries u and v in \(M_ n\), there is an automorphism \(\theta\) of \(M_ n\) such that \(\| u-\theta (v)\| \leq \epsilon\) if and only if \(\nu_ u(I)\leq \nu_ v(I_{\epsilon})\) for every open interval of \({\mathbb{T}}\). Here \(I_{\epsilon}=\{z\in {\mathbb{T}}\| z-z'| <\epsilon\) for some z'\(\in I\}.\) The authors use this result to study automorphisms of UHF algebras. Let \(\{n(k)\}\) be an unbounded sequence of positive integers and let A be the UHF algebra \(A=\otimes^{\infty}_{1}M_{n(k)}\). Then the cyclic product automorphism \(\alpha_ 0\) defined by \(\alpha_ 0=\otimes^{\infty}_{1}ad s(n(k))\) is outer conjugate to a product automorphism \(\beta =\otimes^{\infty}_{1}ad u_ k\) if and only if \(\sum_{k}(1-| {\mathcal F}\nu_{u(k)}(m)|)=+\infty\) for all nonzero integers m. Here \(s(n(k))\) is the unitary giving the left regular representation of \({\mathbb{Z}}_{n(k)}\) and \({\mathcal F}\) denotes the Fourier transform. As a corollary, the authors show that \(\beta \otimes \alpha_ 0\) is outer conjugate to \(\alpha_ 0\) on \(A\otimes A\) if \(\beta\) is a product action \(\beta =\otimes ad v(k).\) The authors also show that an automorphism of the universal UHF algebra is centrally stable if and only if it satisfies a Rohlin property.
reviewed by: Herbert Halpern
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 46L40
zbMATH DE Number: 4019789
zbMATH Keywords: normalized trace
zbMATH Keywords: spectral decomposition
zbMATH Keywords: automorphisms of UHF algebras
zbMATH Keywords: cyclic product automorphism
zbMATH Keywords: Fourier transform
zbMATH Keywords: Rohlin property
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cites work: Outer conjugacy classes of automorphisms of factors
cites work: Q5592263
cites work: Stability for integer actions on UHF \(C^*\)-algebras
cites work: Theory of operator algebras I.
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4019789