We investigate the notion of tracial ${\mathcal {Z}}$-stability beyond unital $\mathrm {C}^*$-algebras, and we prove that this notion is equivalent to ${\mathcal {Z}}$-stability in the class of separable simple nuclear $\mathrm {C}^*$-algebras.

Let G be a finite group, let A be an infinite-dimensional stably finite simple unital C*-algebra, and let $\alpha \colon G \to {\operatorname {Aut}} (A)$ be an action of G on A which has the weak tracial Rokhlin property. Let $A^{\alpha }$ be the fixed point algebra. Then the radius of comparison satisfies ${\operatorname {rc}} (A^{\alpha }) \leq {\operatorname {rc}} (A)$ and ${\operatorname {rc}} ( C^* (G, A, \alpha ) ) \leq ({1}/{{{\operatorname{card}}} (G))} \cdot {\operatorname {rc}} (A)$ . The inclusion of $A^{\alpha }$ in A induces an isomorphism from the purely positive part of the Cuntz semigroup ${\operatorname {Cu}} (A^{\alpha })$ to the fixed points of the purely positive part of ${\operatorname {Cu}} (A)$ , and the purely positive part of ${\operatorname {Cu}} ( C^* (G, A, \alpha ) )$ is isomorphic to this semigroup. We construct an example in which $G \,{=}\, {\mathbb {Z}} / 2 {\mathbb {Z}}$ , A is a simple unital AH algebra, $\alpha $ has the Rokhlin property, ${\operatorname {rc}} (A)> 0$ , ${\operatorname {rc}} (A^{\alpha }) = {\operatorname {rc}} (A)$ , and ${\operatorname {rc}} ({C^* (G, A, \alpha)} ) = ({1}/{2}) {\operatorname {rc}} (A)$ .

Kumjian and Pask introduced an aperiodicity condition for higher rank graphs. We present a detailed analysis of when this occurs in certain rank 2 graphs. When the algebra is aperiodic, we give another proof of the simplicity of ${{\text{C}}^{*}}\left( \mathbb{F}_{\theta }^{+} \right)$. The periodic ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebras are characterized, and it is shown that ${{\text{C}}^{*}}\left( \mathbb{F}_{\theta }^{+} \right)\,\simeq \,\text{C}\left( \mathbb{T} \right)\,\otimes \,\mathfrak{U}$ where $\mathfrak{A}$ is a simple ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebra.

Let $\text{Z}$ be the unital simple nuclear infinite dimensional ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra which has the same Elliott invariant as $\mathbb{C}$, introduced in [9]. A ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra is called $\text{Z}$-stable if $A\,\cong \,A\,\otimes \,\text{Z}$. In this note we give some necessary conditions for a unital simple ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra to be $\text{Z}$-stable.