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On C*-algebras associated to right LCM semigroups
We initiate the study of the internal structure of C*-algebras associated to
a left cancellative semigroup in which any two principal right ideals are
either disjoint or intersect in another principal right ideal; these are
variously called right LCM semigroups or semigroups that satisfy Clifford's
condition. Our main findings are results about uniqueness of the full semigroup
C*-algebra. We build our analysis upon a rich interaction between the group of
units of the semigroup and the family of constructible right ideals. As an
application we identify algebraic conditions on S under which C*(S) is purely
infinite and simple.Comment: 31 page
Cauchy-Davenport type theorems for semigroups
Let be a (possibly non-commutative) semigroup. For we define , where is the set of the units of , and The paper
investigates some properties of and shows the following
extension of the Cauchy-Davenport theorem: If is cancellative and
, then This
implies a generalization of Kemperman's inequality for torsion-free groups and
strengthens another extension of the Cauchy-Davenport theorem, where
is a group and in the above is replaced by the
infimum of as ranges over the non-trivial subgroups of
(Hamidoune-K\'arolyi theorem).Comment: To appear in Mathematika (12 pages, no figures; the paper is a sequel
of arXiv:1210.4203v4; shortened comments and proofs in Sections 3 and 4;
refined the statement of Conjecture 6 and added a note in proof at the end of
Section 6 to mention that the conjecture is true at least in another
non-trivial case
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