Amenability, group C*-algebras and operator spaces
Presenter
December 9, 2016
Keywords:
- amenability
- amenable groups
- C*-algebras
- C* algebras
- local lifting property
- weak expectation property
- a-T-menability
- fixed point properties
- hyperbolic groups and generalizations
- Banach space
- group cohomology
- expander graph
- index theory
- non-commutative geometry
MSC:
- 22D25
- 43A07
- 46-xx
- 20-xx
- 58-xx
- 57-xx
- 20F65
- 46-xx
- 46L80
- 20J06
- 43A07
Abstract
We will review several results and open problems relating amenability to two properties of group C* algebras introduced or studied by E. Kirchberg, namely the local lifting property (LLP) and the weak expectation property (WEP).