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Perforated Ordered K0-Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

George A. Elliott  and
Jesper Villadsen
George A. Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 and The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, 222 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1
Jesper Villadsen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Odense University, 5230 Odense M, Denmark Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 and The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, 222 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 3J1
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Abstract

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A simple ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra is constructed for which the Murray-von Neumann equivalence classes of projections, with the usual addition—induced by addition of orthogonal projections—form the additive semigroup

$$\left\{ 0,\,2,\,3,\ldots \right\}.$$

(This is a particularly simple instance of the phenomenon of perforation of the ordered ${{K}_{0}}$-group, which has long been known in the commutative case—for instance, in the case of the four-sphere—and was recently observed by the second author in the case of a simple ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra.)

Keywords

46L3546L80
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 52 , Issue 6 , 01 December 2000 , pp. 1164 - 1191
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2000

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