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We study flows on C*-algebras with the Rokhlin property. We show that every Kirchberg algebra carries a unique Rokhlin flow up to cocycle conjugacy, which confirms a long-standing conjecture of Kishimoto. We moreover present a classification theory for Rokhlin flows on C*-algebras satisfying certain technical properties, which hold for many C*-algebras covered by the Elliott program. As a consequence, we obtain the following further classification theorems for Rokhlin flows. Firstly, we extend the statement of Kishimotos conjecture to the non-simple case: Up to cocycle conjugacy, a Rokhlin flow on a separable, nuclear, strongly purely infinite C*-algebra is uniquely determined by its induced action on the prime ideal space. Secondly, we give a complete classification of Rokhlin flows on simple classifiable $KK$-contractible C*-algebras: Two Rokhlin flows on such a C*-algebra are cocycle conjugate if and only if their induced actions on the cone of lower-semicontinuous traces are affinely conjugate.
Let $(X, Gamma)$ be a free minimal dynamical system, where $X$ is a compact separable Hausdorff space and $Gamma$ is a discrete amenable group. It is shown that, if $(X, Gamma)$ has a version of Rokhlin property (uniform Rokhlin property) and if $mathrm{C}(X)rtimesGamma$ has a Cuntz comparison on open sets, then the comparison radius of the crossed product C*-algebra $mathrm{C}(X) rtimes Gamma$ is at most half of the mean topological dimension of $(X, Gamma)$. These two conditions are shown to be satisfied if $Gamma = mathbb Z$ or if $(X, Gamma)$ is an extension of a free Cantor system and $Gamma$ has subexponential growth. The main tools being used are Cuntz comparison of diagonal elements of a subhomogeneous C*-algebra and small subgroupoids.
We characterise, in several complementary ways, etale groupoids with locally compact Hausdorff space of units whose essential groupoid C*-algebra has the ideal intersection property, assuming that the groupoid is either Hausdorff or $sigma$-compact. This leads directly to a characterisation of the simplicity of this C*-algebra which, for Hausdorff groupoids, agrees with the reduced groupoid C*-algebra. Specifically, we prove that the ideal intersection property is equivalent to the absence of essentially confined amenable sections of isotropy groups. For groupoids with compact space of units we moreover show that is equivalent to the uniqueness of equivariant pseudo-expectations and in the minimal case to an appropriate generalisation of Powers averaging property. A key technical idea underlying our results is a new notion of groupoid action on C*-algebras that includes the essential groupoid C*-algebra itself. By considering a relative version of Powers averaging property, we obtain new examples of C*-irreducible inclusions in the sense of R{o}rdam. These arise from the inclusion of the C*-algebra generated by a suitable group representation into a simple groupoid C*-algebra. This is illustrated by the example of the C*-algebra generated by the quasi-regular representation of Thompsons group T with respect to Thompsons group F, which is contained C*-irreducibly in the Cuntz algebra $mathcal{O}_2$.
We prove that every unital stably finite simple amenable $C^*$-algebra $A$ with finite nuclear dimension and with UCT such that every trace is quasi-diagonal has the property that $Aotimes Q$ has generalized tracial rank at most one, where $Q$ is the universal UHF-algebra. Consequently, $A$ is classifiable in the sense of Elliott.
The representations of a $k$-graph $C^*$-algebra $C^*(Lambda)$ which arise from $Lambda$-semibranching function systems are closely linked to the dynamics of the $k$-graph $Lambda$. In this paper, we undertake a systematic analysis of the question of irreducibility for these representations. We provide a variety of necessary and sufficient conditions for irreducibility, as well as a number of examples indicating the optimality of our results. We also explore the relationship between irreducible $Lambda$-semibranching representations and purely atomic representations of $C^*(Lambda)$. Throughout the paper, we work in the setting of row-finite source-free $k$-graphs; this paper constitutes the first analysis of $Lambda$-semibranching representations at this level of generality.
Given a self-similar $K$ set defined from an iterated function system $Gamma=(gamma_1,ldots,gamma_n)$ and a set of function $H={h_i:Ktomathbb{R}}_{i=1}^d$ satisfying suitable conditions, we define a generalized gauge action on Kawjiwara-Watatani algebras $mathcal{O}_Gamma$ and their Toeplitz extensions $mathcal{T}_Gamma$. We then characterize the KMS states for this action. For each $betain(0,infty)$, there is a Ruelle operator $mathcal{L}_{H,beta}$ and the existence of KMS states at inverse temperature $beta$ is related to this operator. The critical inverse temperature $beta_c$ is such that $mathcal{L}_{H,beta_c}$ has spectral radius 1. If $beta<beta_c$, there are no KMS states on $mathcal{O}_Gamma$ and $mathcal{T}_Gamma$; if $beta=beta_c$, there is a unique KMS state on $mathcal{O}_Gamma$ and $mathcal{T}_Gamma$ which is given by the eigenmeasure of $mathcal{L}_{H,beta_c}$; and if $beta>beta_c$, including $beta=infty$, the extreme points of the set of KMS states on $mathcal{T}_Gamma$ are parametrized by the elements of $K$ and on $mathcal{O}_Gamma$ by the set of branched points.