Embeddings of $L^p$-operator algebras

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Autores principales: Gardella, Eusebio, Gundelach, Jan
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author Gardella, Eusebio
Gundelach, Jan
author_facet Gardella, Eusebio
Gundelach, Jan
contents We study embeddings of $L^p$-operator algebras arising from (twisted) étale groupoids, with particular emphasis on rigidity phenomena for $p\neq 2$. Our methods rely on a detailed analysis of core normalizers and their functorial behavior under algebra homomorphisms. Using the notion of actors between groupoids, we show that under natural hypotheses, embeddings between reduced $L^p$-groupoid algebras can be described entirely in terms of morphisms of the underlying groupoids. We further show that embeddings of $L^p$-groupoid algebras induce embeddings of the associated topological full groups. Our results provide new tools for studying embeddability questions in the $L^p$-setting, and are particularly helpful when ruling out the existence of embeddings. As applications, we obtain strong rigidity results for (spatial) $L^p$-AF-embeddability, showing that, for $p\neq 2$, an $L^p$-groupoid algebra embeds into a spatial $L^p$-AF-algebra if and only if the underlying groupoid is AF. In particular, irrational rotation $L^p$-operator algebras do not embed into spatial $L^p$-AF-algebras. We apply these results to tensor products of $L^p$-Cuntz algebras and prove that, for $p\neq 2$, there is no unital contractive homomorphism from $\mathcal{O}_2^p \otimes_p \mathcal{O}_2^p$ into $\mathcal{O}_2^p$, showing that there is no $L^p$-analog of Kirchberg's $\mathcal{O}_2$-embedding theorem.
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spellingShingle Embeddings of $L^p$-operator algebras
Gardella, Eusebio
Gundelach, Jan
Functional Analysis
Operator Algebras
We study embeddings of $L^p$-operator algebras arising from (twisted) étale groupoids, with particular emphasis on rigidity phenomena for $p\neq 2$. Our methods rely on a detailed analysis of core normalizers and their functorial behavior under algebra homomorphisms. Using the notion of actors between groupoids, we show that under natural hypotheses, embeddings between reduced $L^p$-groupoid algebras can be described entirely in terms of morphisms of the underlying groupoids. We further show that embeddings of $L^p$-groupoid algebras induce embeddings of the associated topological full groups. Our results provide new tools for studying embeddability questions in the $L^p$-setting, and are particularly helpful when ruling out the existence of embeddings. As applications, we obtain strong rigidity results for (spatial) $L^p$-AF-embeddability, showing that, for $p\neq 2$, an $L^p$-groupoid algebra embeds into a spatial $L^p$-AF-algebra if and only if the underlying groupoid is AF. In particular, irrational rotation $L^p$-operator algebras do not embed into spatial $L^p$-AF-algebras. We apply these results to tensor products of $L^p$-Cuntz algebras and prove that, for $p\neq 2$, there is no unital contractive homomorphism from $\mathcal{O}_2^p \otimes_p \mathcal{O}_2^p$ into $\mathcal{O}_2^p$, showing that there is no $L^p$-analog of Kirchberg's $\mathcal{O}_2$-embedding theorem.
title Embeddings of $L^p$-operator algebras
topic Functional Analysis
Operator Algebras
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15204