Rieffel proper actions

Abstract

In the late 1980's Marc Rieffel introduced a notion of properness for actions of locally compact groups on C*-algebras which, among other things, allows the construction of generalised fixed-point algebras for such actions. In this paper we give a simple characterisation of Rieffel proper actions and use this to obtain several (counter) examples for the theory. In particular, we provide examples of Rieffel proper actions $\alpha :G\to \mathrm{Aut}(A)$ for which properness is not induced by a nondegenerate equivariant *-homomorphism $\varphi :C_0(X)\to \mathcal{M}(A)$ for any proper $G$-space $X$. Other examples, based on earlier work of Meyer, show that a given action might carry different structures for Rieffel properness with different generalised fixed-point algebras.

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