Nuclear dimension and sums of commutators
Nuclear dimension and sums of commutators
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核维数和换向器之和
DOI:
10.1512/iumj.2015.64.5472
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2013
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通讯作者:
L. Robert
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L. Robert
The problem of expressing a selfadjoint element that is zero on every bounded trace as a finite sum (or a limit of sums) of commutators is investigated in the setting of C*-algebras of finite nuclear dimension. Upper bounds -- in terms of the nuclear dimension of the C*-algebra -- are given for the number of commutators needed in these sums. An example is given of a simple, nuclear C*-algebra (of infinite nuclear dimension) with a unique tracial state and with elements that vanish on all bounded traces and yet are "badly" approximated by finite sums of commutators. Finally, the same problem is investigated on (possibly non-nuclear) simple unital C*-algebras assuming suitable regularity properties in their Cuntz semigroups.