On tensor products of certain group C1-algebras |
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Authors: | Simon Wassermann |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland |
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Abstract: | If A and B are C1-algebras there is, in general, a multiplicity of C1-norms on their algebraic tensor product A ⊙ B, including maximal and minimal norms ν and α, respectively. A is said to be nuclear if α and ν coincide, for arbitrary B. The earliest example, due to Takesaki 11], of a nonnuclear C1-algebra was , the C1-algebra generated by the left regular representation of the free group on two generators F2. It is shown here that W1-algebras, with the exception of certain finite type I's, are nonnuclear.If is the group C1-algebra of F2, there is a canonical homomorphism λl of onto . The principal result of this paper is that there is a norm ζ on , distinct from α, relative to which the homomorphism is bounded ( being endowed with the norm α). Thus quotients do not, in general, respect the norm α; a consequence of this is that the set of ideals of the α-tensor product of C1-algebras A and B may properly contain the set of product ideals {}.Let A and B be C1-algebras. If A or B is a W1-algebra there are on A ⊙ B certain C1-norms, defined recently by Effros and Lance 3], the definitions of which take account of normality. In the final section of the paper it is shown by example that these norms, with α and ν, can be mutually distinct. |
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