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An action of the Klein four-group on the irrational rotation C*-algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

P.J. Stacey
Affiliation:
School of MathematicsLa Trobe UniversityBundoora Vic 3083Australia e-mail: P.Stacey@latrobe.edu.au
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Abstract

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Explicit automorphisms of the irrational rotation algebra are constructed which are associated with the two 2 × 2 diagonal integer matrices of determinant −1. The fixed point algebra of the product of these two automorphisms is shown to be isomorphic to the fixed point algebra of the flip.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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