Semicrossed Products of Operator Algebras by Semigroups

Semicrossed Products of Operator Algebras by Semigroups
ISBN-10
147042309X
ISBN-13
9781470423094
Category
Operator algebras
Pages
97
Language
English
Published
2017-04-25
Publisher
American Mathematical Soc.
Authors
Kenneth R. Davidson, Adam Fuller, Evgenios T. A. Kakariadis

Description

The authors examine the semicrossed products of a semigroup action by -endomorphisms on a C*-algebra, or more generally of an action on an arbitrary operator algebra by completely contractive endomorphisms. The choice of allowable representations affects the corresponding universal algebra. The authors seek quite general conditions which will allow them to show that the C*-envelope of the semicrossed product is (a full corner of) a crossed product of an auxiliary C*-algebra by a group action. Their analysis concerns a case-by-case dilation theory on covariant pairs. In the process we determine the C*-envelope for various semicrossed products of (possibly nonselfadjoint) operator algebras by spanning cones and lattice-ordered abelian semigroups.

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