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2608.13551
2 days ago

Every PPT channel has finite entanglement-breaking index

Sang-Jun Park

We prove that every PPT linear map has finite entanglement-breaking index, thereby establishing the eventual entanglement-breaking property of PPT channels in full generality. Furthermore, by utilizing completely positive maps with low entanglement dimensionality, we show that a large family of PPT maps, which strictly containing the class of 2-superpositive maps, has entanglement-breaking index bounded above by 3, uniformly in the dimension. In particular, these results provide strong evidence that the PPT-cubed conjecture may hold in full generality.

Quantum PhysicsMathematical Physics
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Operator Algebras
2608.13000
2 days ago

Dynamical comparison for local homeomorphisms

Shirly Geffen, Shanshan Hua, Julian Kranz

We prove dynamical comparison for Deaconu--Renault groupoids associated to minimal surjective non-injective local homeomorphisms of compact metrizable spaces with finite Lebesgue covering dimension. As a corollary, the associated C∗C^*C∗-algebras are UCT Kirchberg algebras, recovering results by Carlsen--Thomsen via dynamical methods. In the zero-dimensional case, our result also verifies Matui's AH-conjecture for these groupoids using a recent breakthrough of Xin Li. Our proof combines techniques from both the purely infinite and stably finite regimes: We construct partial actions of non-abelian free groups as suitable ``large subgroupoids'' and establish comparison properties for these using the paradoxical towers technique developed by Gardella--Geffen--Kranz--Naryshkin. The boundary of the subgroupoid is controlled by a groupoid version of the topological small boundary property which we deduce from finite covering dimension of the unit space. As a byproduct, we prove the classical small boundary property for minimal actions of countable discrete groups on finite-dimensional compact metrizable spaces without any freeness assumption.

Operator AlgebrasDynamical Systems
2608.12798
2 days ago

Some more talents of the talented monoid of a higher-rank graph

Roozbeh Hazrat, Huanhuan Li, Promit Mukherjee

In this paper, we explore the idea that the graded Grothendieck group K0grK_0^{gr}K0gr​, or equivalently its positive cone, the talented monoid, can detect the structural type of higher-rank graph algebras (i.e., higher-rank graph C∗C^*C∗-algebras and Kumjian--Pask algebras). We show that the talented monoid captures some of the essential geometric information of a higher-rank graph, including the existence of cycles with and without entrances. In turn, we show that the graded KKK-theory can effectively distinguish the class of locally finite Kumjian--Pask algebras, and also the class of crossed product Kumjian--Pask algebras. We also derive talented monoid criteria for higher-rank graph algebras to be purely infinite simple, and not to be AFAFAF or ultramatricial.

Rings and AlgebrasOperator Algebras
2608.12662
3 days ago

Morita equivalence of graded C*-algebras

John Quigg, Efren Ruiz, Aidan Sims

We define two notions of Morita equivalence for graded C*-algebras (graded Morita equivalence and homogeneous Morita equivalence) and provide Brown-Green-Rieffel Stabilization Type Theorems for both notions of graded equivalence. We apply our results to finite regular graphs by establishing an explicit connection between graded C*-algebras and coactions. Lastly, we incorporate Cartan subalgebras with totally disconnected spectra and obtain Brown-Green-Rieffel Stabilization Type Theorems for these cases.

Operator Algebras
2608.12188
3 days ago

Integrability of Freely Infinitely Divisible Distributions and Lévy Measures

Yu Kitagawa

Under a growth condition on an increasing function ggg, we prove that integrability of a freely infinitely divisible distribution with respect to ggg is equivalent to that of the large-jump part of its free Lévy measure. For every increasing freely submultiplicative function ggg, integrability of the distribution implies integrability of the large-jump part of its free Lévy measure. We also obtain two-sided tail comparisons between freely infinitely divisible distributions and their free Lévy measures, uniform integrability along free convolution semigroups, and integrability results and tail estimates for fractional free convolution powers.

ProbabilityOperator Algebras
2608.12089
3 days ago

Complexity rank one implies real rank zero

Qingnan An, Zhichao Liu

We show that C∗C^*C∗-algebras with complexity rank one have real rank zero, as an application, the uniform Roe algebra Cu∗∣Z∣C_u^*|\mathbb{Z}|Cu∗​∣Z∣ has real rank zero.

Operator Algebras
2608.12080
3 days ago

Word-Length Spectral Triples of (Z/2Z)≀Fd(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\wr\mathbb{F}_{d}(Z/2Z)≀Fd​ Are Not Metric

Mario Klisse

Given a countable discrete group equipped with a proper length function, one can construct a natural spectral triple on its reduced group C∗^{\ast}∗-algebra. A well-studied question in non-commutative metric geometry is whether the Connes pseudo-metric associated with such a triple recovers the weak∗^{\ast}∗-topology on the state space, thereby yielding a compact quantum metric space in the sense of Rieffel. While this metric property is known to hold for several classes of groups - including those of polynomial growth and word-hyperbolic groups - it was widely expected that not every word-length function induces a compact quantum metric space. Despite this, no explicit counterexample has been identified to date. In this note, we provide the first family of counterexamples by proving that for every integer d≥2d \geq 2d≥2 the canonical spectral triple of the Lamplighter group (Z/2Z)≀Fd(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\wr\mathbb{F}_{d}(Z/2Z)≀Fd​, equipped with the word-length function associated with a finite symmetric generating set, fails to be a spectral metric space.

Operator AlgebrasFunctional AnalysisGroup Theory
2608.11711
3 days ago

A Complete Characterization of Cartan Inclusions of Finite Dimensional C∗C^*C∗-algebras

Indrajit Ghosh, Sumit Kumar

We give a complete characterization of Cartan inclusions of finite dimensional C∗C^*C∗-algebras in terms of their inclusion matrices. More precisely, for a unital inclusion B⊆A\mathcal{B}\subseteq\mathcal{A}B⊆A with inclusion matrix Λ=(Λij)Λ=(Λ_{ij})Λ=(Λij​), where Cartan means that B\mathcal{B}B is a generalised Cartan subalgebra of A\mathcal{A}A in the sense of Exel, we prove that the inclusion is Cartan if and only if ∑iΛij≤1\sum_i Λ_{ij}\leq 1i∑​Λij​≤1 for every jjj. We call matrices satisfying this condition multiplicity free. Thus, our characterization provides a purely combinatorial criterion for determining when a finite dimensional inclusion is Cartan. We further prove that every Cartan inclusion admits a unique conditional expectation from A\mathcal{A}A onto B\mathcal{B}B. Conversely, we show that, for unital inclusions of finite dimensional C∗C^*C∗-algebras, the uniqueness of the conditional expectation is sufficient for the inclusion to be Cartan. Consequently, a unital inclusion B⊆A\mathcal{B}\subseteq\mathcal{A}B⊆A of finite dimensional C∗C^*C∗-algebras is Cartan if and only if there exists a unique conditional expectation from A\mathcal{A}A onto B\mathcal{B}B.

Operator Algebras
2608.11127
4 days ago

The C∗C^*C∗--ISR Property for PSLn(Z)\text{PSL}_n(\mathbb{Z})PSLn​(Z)

Tattwamasi Amrutam

A discrete group ΓΓΓ has the C∗C^*C∗--ISR property if every unital ΓΓΓ--invariant C∗C^*C∗--subalgebra A⊆Cr∗(Γ)A\subseteq C_r^*(Γ)A⊆Cr∗​(Γ)

Operator AlgebrasDynamical SystemsFunctional Analysis
2608.10783
4 days ago

Quantum steering is equivalent to state-preserving conditional expectations

Lauritz van Luijk, Amine Marrakchi, Tobias Osborne +2

In systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom, fundamental results from quantum information theory can fail. An important example is the uniqueness of purifications: Even when two subsystems, described by commuting von Neumann algebras AAA and BBB, are tomographically complete, purifications of a state on AAA need not be related by unitaries in BBB. It was recently shown that this occurs precisely when Haag duality fails, i.e., when the commutant B′B'B′ is strictly larger than AAA. This raises the question of which fundamental entanglement properties survive in such a setting. We show that, for a pure global state, the ability to steer any ensemble decomposition of the marginal state on AAA by measurements on BBB is equivalent to the existence of a state-preserving conditional expectation from B′B'B′ onto AAA. This establishes a direct connection between quantum steering and subfactor theory. The key observation is that steering is equivalent to the existence of extensions of ensemble decompositions from AAA to B′B'B′. Working with general Jordan algebras, we prove that unital positive maps have state-preserving left inverses if and only if ensemble decompositions can be lifted. For the inclusion A↪B′A\hookrightarrow B'A↪B′, a left inverse is precisely a conditional expectation, yielding the characterization above.

Quantum PhysicsMathematical PhysicsOperator Algebras
2608.10191
5 days ago

Integration Theory for Completely positive Instruments: A Lyapunov-Type Theorem and Applications

Arghya Chongdar

We develop a theory of integration with respect to quantum instruments through two complementary approaches: a vector measure formulation based on Bartle's integration theory and a tensor product construction. As a principal application, we establish a CP map-valued Lyapunov theorem by characterizing the convexity of the range of non-atomic completely positive instruments via the associated integration map. This extends the work of Plosker and Ramsey Plosker_Ramsey from POVMs to completely positive instruments and gives a general characterization of the phenomenon exhibited in their setting. We also establish a correspondence between completely positive instruments and completely positive maps, prove a Krein--Milman type theorem for the C∗C^*C∗-convex set of unital completely positive instruments, and show that the tensor product construction connects the theory of CP instruments with the integration theory for POVMs due to Farenick et al(douglus_plosker_ramsey_povmintegration₁).

Operator Algebras
2608.09796
5 days ago

Fiberwise amenability of étale groupoids

Xin Ma, Jianchao Wu

We introduce a new amenability property for étale groupoids, termed fiberwise amenability, along with a stronger variant termed ubiquitous fiberwise amenability. (Ubiquitous) fiberwise amenability emerges naturally from a coarse-geometric perspective on étale groupoids and, in the special case of transformation groupoids, it coincides precisely with the amenability of the acting group (rather than topological amenability of the action). It is also tightly linked to the existence of invariant measures on the unit space of the groupoid. The coarse-geometric framework for étale groupoids that we develop systematically in this work allows us to establish several foundational properties of (ubiquitous) fiberwise amenability. As an application, we prove a Følner--paradoxical dichotomy for minimal étale groupoids, which will serve as a key tool in a sequel on almost elementariness of étale groupoids.

Dynamical SystemsMetric GeometryOperator Algebras
2608.09517
5 days ago

Classification of anomalous actions of finite groups with the Rokhlin property

Sergio Girón Pacheco, Gábor Szabó

Given a finite group G, we develop a generalization of the fundamental classification of Rokhlin G-actions on C*-algebras to the setting of anomalous G-actions with the Rokhlin property. For Rokhlin G-kernels on C*-algebras covered by the classification program, this implies that the induced G-action on some known invariants determines the conjugacy class. Extending a result of Izumi, we show that G-kernels with the Rokhlin property on Kirchberg algebras are classified by their anomaly and the induced module structure on the K-theory groups. We explore K-theoretic obstructions for the existence of Rokhlin G-kernels on general separable C*-algebras and use these to characterise which G-module structures arise as K-groups of Kirchberg algebras admitting a Rokhlin G-kernel with a given lifting obstruction.

Operator Algebras
2608.11265
5 days ago

Bruhat decompositions of operator algebras

Thibaut Lescure

We introduce and study a notion of decomposition of a C∗^*∗-algebra over a Coxeter system based on Tits' definition of a WWW-distance. When such a decomposition comes with suitable conditional expectations, we build an associated Fock Hilbert module and reduced C∗^*∗-algebra ArA^rAr. This unifies constructions of Voiculescu [Voi85] and Caspers--Fima [CF17] and provides a noncommutative analogue of the situation of a discrete group GGG acting on a building, in which case Ar≅Cr∗(G)A^r \cong C^*_r(G)Ar≅Cr∗​(G). We construct covariance C∗^*∗-algebras C(i)⊃Ar\mathscr{C}(i)\supset A^rC(i)⊃Ar as a noncommutative analogue of the crossed product C(Ω)⋊rG⊃Cr∗(G)C(Ω)\rtimes_r G \supset C^*_r(G)C(Ω)⋊r​G⊃Cr∗​(G) where ΩΩΩ is Caprace and Lécureux's minimal combinatorial compactification [CL11] of the locally finite building. Following the approach of Hasegawa [Has17] and Klisse [Kli25], we prove a universal property for the covariance algebras. This structural result yields different approximation properties, some of which are new even for the group case.

Operator AlgebrasGroup Theory
2608.08404
7 days ago

Lexicographic functional calculus and its application to functional calculus calculus

Evangelos A. Nikitopoulos

Let AAA be a unital C∗C^*C∗-algebra and III be a symmetrically normed ideal of AAA. I introduce and study lexicographic functional calculus (LFC), a kind of multivariate functional calculus for tuples (a1,…,am)(a_1,\ldots,a_m)(a1​,…,am​) of noncommuting self-adjoint elements of AAA ''acting in lexicographic order,'' i.e., from left to right, with an element bi∈Ib_i \in Ibi​∈I ''inserted'' between the action of aia_iai​ and ai+1a_{i+1}ai+1​ for each i=1,…,m−1i=1,\ldots,m-1i=1,…,m−1. The reason for its introduction is an application to ''functional calculus calculus,'' the differential calculus of maps induced by single-variate (continuous) functional calculus. Specifically, I prove that if f ⁣:R→Cf\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{C}f:R→C is sufficiently regular and a∈Asa:={c∈A:c∗=c}a\in A_{\mathrm{sa}}:=\{c\in A:c^*=c\}a∈Asa​:={c∈A:c∗=c}, then fa,I(b):=f(a+b)−f(a)∈If_{a,I}(b):=f(a+b)-f(a)\in Ifa,I​(b):=f(a+b)−f(a)∈I for all b∈Isa:=I∩Asab\in I_{\mathrm{sa}}:=I\cap A_{\mathrm{sa}}b∈Isa​:=I∩Asa​, the map fa,I ⁣:Isa→If_{a,I}\colon I_{\mathrm{sa}}\to Ifa,I​:Isa​→I is Fréchet CkC^kCk, and the kthk^{\text{th}}kth Fréchet derivative of fa,If_{a,I}fa,I​ may be written in terms of LFC applied to the kthk^{\text{th}}kth divided difference of fff, a function of k+1k+1k+1 variables. This result recovers or vastly generalizes nearly all comparable results in the literature. For example, it simultaneously recovers the following three highly related results on the regularity of the function fA ⁣:Asa→Af_A\colon A_{\mathrm{sa}}\to AfA​:Asa​→A defined by a↦f(a)a\mapsto f(a)a↦f(a): (1) If AAA is commutative and f∈Ck(R)f\in C^k(\mathbb{R})f∈Ck(R), then fAf_AfA​ is Fréchet CkC^kCk; (2) if AAA is finite dimensional and f∈Ck(R)f\in C^k(\mathbb{R})f∈Ck(R), then fAf_AfA​ is Fréchet CkC^kCk; and (3) if f ⁣:R→Cf\colon\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{C}f:R→C is ''slightly better than CkC^kCk,'' e.g., belongs to the homogeneous Besov space B˙1k,∞(R)\dot{B}_1^{k,\infty}(\mathbb{R})B˙1k,∞​(R), then fAf_AfA​ is Fréchet CkC^kCk no matter the choice of AAA. Before LFC, there was no unifying framework for results (1)--(3); in particular, there was no single result of which they were all corollaries.

Functional AnalysisOperator Algebras
2608.08231
7 days ago

Tame Factorization Property II

Buket Can Bahadır, Nazlı Doğan

We investigate the relationship between the tame factorization property, denoted by TF\mathfrak{TF}TF and introduced in the companion paper CDI, and the DN-ΩΩΩ type linear topological invariants of Fréchet spaces. Combining the basic properties of TF\mathfrak{TF}TF with known characterizations of tameness and boundedness, we obtain several results identifying the triples of Fréchet spaces that possess TF\mathfrak{TF}TF. We further exhibit examples showing that tame factorization property is a strictly weaker condition than tameness, indeed, we construct triples possessing TF\mathfrak{TF}TF none of whose individual pairs are tame. We then investigate triples consisting of an arbitrary Fréchet space XXX, a nuclear Fréchet space YYY satisfying the properties DN‾\underline{DN}DN​ and ΩΩΩ, and a power series space of finite type Λ1(E)Λ_1(\mathcal{E})Λ1​(E) or infinite type Λ∞(E)Λ_\infty(\mathcal{E})Λ∞​(E). We show that requiring such a triple to possess the tame factorization property TF\mathfrak{TF}TF characterizes the corresponding linear topological invariants of XXX; in some cases this holds without any restriction on YYY, while in others it requires the coincidence of the approximate diametral dimension of YYY with that of Λ1(E)Λ_1(\mathcal{E})Λ1​(E) or Λ∞(E)Λ_\infty(\mathcal{E})Λ∞​(E).

Functional AnalysisOperator Algebras
2608.08150
7 days ago

Vanishing of ℓ2\ell^2ℓ2-Betti numbers for inner amenable groups

Robin Tucker-Drob

We prove that every countable inner amenable group has vanishing ℓ2\ell^2ℓ2-Betti numbers in all degrees. This was previously open in every degree n≥2n\geq2n≥2.

Group TheoryOperator Algebras
2608.07805
8 days ago

A counterexample to the Kato conjecture for positive commutators

Rupert L. Frank, Paata Ivanisvili

We disprove the conjectural converse to Kato's positivity criterion for commutators of functions of the canonical position and momentum operators QQQ and PPP by showing that the operator i [ arctan⁡(P), arctan⁡(Q) ]i\,[\,\arctan(P),\,\arctan(Q)\,]i[arctan(P),arctan(Q)] is nonnegative and nonzero.

Functional AnalysisMathematical PhysicsOperator Algebras
2608.07421
8 days ago

The noncommutative topological factor theorem for rank-one product lattices

Cyril Houdayer, Corentin Le Bars

We prove a noncommutative topological factor theorem for irreducible lattices in products of real rank-one simple Lie groups. The intermediate C*-subalgebras between the reduced group C*-algebra and the boundary crossed product are exactly the crossed products arising from coordinate subproducts of the Furstenberg boundary. This follows from a more general theorem for product boundary actions, which also yields tree and mixed local-field versions. We finally show that the corresponding classification for the full flag action of SL⁡3(Z)\operatorname{SL}_3(\mathbb Z)SL3​(Z) would imply ordinary ITAP.

Operator AlgebrasDynamical SystemsGroup Theory
2608.07246
8 days ago

The two-sided Bogoliubov inequality in von Neumann algebras conceptualizes the free energy--quantum correlations link

Benedikt M. Reible, Albert Much, Rainer Verch +2

The quantum-mechanical two-sided Bogoliubov inequality provides upper and lower bounds for the free energy required to separate a system of interacting particles into independent subsystems. The bounds can be calculated straightforwardly from the ensemble average of the interface energy, bypassing the direct evaluation of the free energy. In this work, we generalize the two-sided Bogoliubov inequality to arbitrary von Neumann algebras by employing the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy and the framework of unbounded perturbation theory of KMS states. Furthermore, we obtain variational expressions for the relative free energy that extend existing bounded-perturbation principles to the unbounded setting. Crucially, these mathematical developments yield a physically well-founded thermodynamic criterion for the quantification of entanglement in infinite-dimensional systems.

Mathematical PhysicsTheoryOperator Algebras
is of the form
Cr∗(N)C_r^*(N)Cr∗​(N)
for a normal subgroup
N◃ΓN\triangleleftΓN◃Γ
. We show that
PSLn(Z)\text{PSL}_n(\mathbb{Z})PSLn​(Z)
satisfies the
C∗C^*C∗
--ISR property for every
n≥3n\geq3n≥3
.