Topological entropy, embeddings and unitaries in nuclear quasidiagonal -algebras

Using topological entropy of automorphisms of -algebras, it is shown that some important facts from the theory of AF algebras do not carry over to the class of algebras.

It is shown that in general one cannot perturb a basic building block into a larger one which almost contains it. The same entropy obstruction used to prove this fact also provides a new obstruction to the known fact that two injective homomorphisms from a building block into an algebra need not differ by an (inner) automorphism when they agree on K-theory.