Triviality of Equivariant Maps in Crossed Products and Matrix Algebras

Abstract

We consider a "twisted" noncommutative join procedure for unital $C^{\ast }$-algebras which admit actions by a compact abelian group $G$ and its discrete abelian dual $\Gamma$, so that we may investigate an analogue of Baum-Dabrowski-Hajac noncommutative Borsuk-Ulam theory in the twisted setting. Namely, under what conditions is it guaranteed that an equivariant map $\varphi$ from a unital $C^{\ast }$-algebra $A$ to the twisted join of $A$ and $C^{\ast }(\Gamma )$ cannot exist? This pursuit is motivated by the twisted analogues of even spheres, which admit the same $K_0$ groups as even spheres and have an analogous Borsuk-Ulam theorem that is detected by $K_0$, despite the fact that the objects are not themselves deformations of a sphere. We find multiple sufficient conditions for twisted Borsuk-Ulam theorems to hold, one of which is the addition of another equivariance condition on $\varphi$ that corresponds to the choice of twist. However, we also find multiple examples of equivariant maps $\varphi$ that exist even under fairly restrictive assumptions. Finally, we consider an extension of unital contractibility (in the sense of Dabrowski-Hajac-Neshveyev) "modulo $k$."

12 pages. Version 2 implemented the following changes: stated definitions and theorems in greater generality, cleaned up proofs, and highlighted key examples (as opposed to referring to them casually in the text)

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