On the Takai duality for $L^p$ operator crossed products

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to study a problem raised by N. C. Phillips concerning the existence of Takai duality for $L^p$ operator crossed products $F^p(G,A,\alpha )$, where $G$ is a locally compact Abelian group, $A$ is an $L^p$ operator algebra and $\alpha$ is an isometric action of $G$ on $A$. Inspired by D. Williams' proof for the Takai duality theorem for crossed products of $C^{\ast }$-algebras, we construct a homomorphism $\Phi$ from $F^p(\hat{G},F^p(G,A,\alpha ),\hat{\alpha })$ to $\mathcal{K}(l^p(G)){\otimes }_{p}A$ which is a natural $L^p$-analog of D. Williams' map. For countable discrete Abelian groups $G$ and separable unital $L^p$ operator algebras $A$ which have unique $L^p$ operator matrix norms, we show that $\Phi$ is an isomorphism if and only if either $G$ is finite or $p=2$; in particular, $\Phi$ is an isometric isomorphism in the case that $p=2$. Moreover, it is proved that $\Phi$ is equivariant for the double dual action $\hat{\hat{\alpha }}$ of $G$ on $F^p(\hat{G},F^p(G,A,\alpha ),\hat{\alpha })$ and the action $\mathrm{Ad}\rho \otimes \alpha$ of $G$ on $\mathcal{K}(l^p(G)){\otimes }_{p}A$.

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