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THE CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM FOR AUTOMORPHISMS OF C*-ALGEBRAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2016

MARTINO LUPINI
MARTINO LUPINI*
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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1200 E. CALIFORNIA BLVD MC 253-37 PASADENA, CA 91125, USAE-mail: lupini@caltech.eduURL: http://www.lupini.org/
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Abstract

We present an overview of the recent developments in the study of the classification problem for automorphisms of C*-algebras from the perspective of Borel complexity theory.

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Primary 03E1546L40Secondary 46L3546L57C*-algebraautomorphismBorel complexityBorel reductionturbulenceCuntz algebra
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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 402 - 424
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