Nuclearity of semigroup C*-algebras and the connection to amenability

We study C*-algebras associated with subsemigroups of groups. For a large class of such semigroups including positive cones in quasi-lattice ordered groups and left Ore semigroups, we describe the corresponding semigroup C*-algebras as C*-algebras of inverse semigroups, groupoid C*-algebras and full corners in associated group crossed products. These descriptions allow us to characterize nuclearity of semigroup C*-algebras in terms of faithfulness of left regular representations and amenability of group actions. Moreover, we also determine when boundary quotients of semigroup C*-algebras are UCT Kirchberg algebras. This leads to a unified approach to Cuntz algebras and ring C*-algebras.Comment: 42 pages; revised version, corrected typo

On the Existence of Local Observables in Theories With a Factorizing S-Matrix

A recently proposed criterion for the existence of local quantum fields with a prescribed factorizing scattering matrix is verified in a non-trivial model, thereby establishing a new constructive approach to quantum field theory in a particular example. The existence proof is accomplished by analyzing nuclearity properties of certain specific subsets of Fermionic Fock spaces.Comment: 13 pages, no figures, comment in sect. 3 adde

LpL^p-boundedness and LpL^p-nuclearity of multilinear pseudo-differential operators on Zn\mathbb{Z}^n and the torus Tn\mathbb{T}^n

In this article, we begin a systematic study of the boundedness and the nuclearity properties of multilinear periodic pseudo-differential operators and multilinear discrete pseudo-differential operators on $L^p$-spaces. First, we prove analogues of known multilinear Fourier multipliers theorems (proved by Coifman and Meyer, Grafakos, Tomita, Torres, Kenig, Stein, Fujita, Tao, etc.) in the context of periodic and discrete multilinear pseudo-differential operators. For this, we use the periodic analysis of pseudo-differential operators developed by Ruzhansky and Turunen. Later, we investigate the $s$-nuclearity, $0<s \leq 1,$ of periodic and discrete pseudo-differential operators. To accomplish this, we classify those $s$-nuclear multilinear integral operators on arbitrary Lebesgue spaces defined on $\sigma$-finite measures spaces. We also study similar properties for periodic Fourier integral operators. Finally, we present some applications of our study to deduce the periodic Kato-Ponce inequality and to examine the $s$-nuclearity of multilinear Bessel potentials as well as the $s$-nuclearity of periodic Fourier integral operators admitting suitable types of singularities.Comment: 40 pages, This version is a revised version based on reviewer's comments. Final version appeared in JFA