Positive Herz–Schur multipliers and approximation properties of crossed products

Abstract

For aC*-algebraAand a setXwe give a Stinespring-type characterisation of the completely positive SchurA-multipliers on κ(ℓ2(X)) ⊗A. We then relate them to completely positive Herz–Schur multipliers onC*-algebraic crossed products of the formA⋊α,rG, withGa discrete group, whose various versions were considered earlier by Anantharaman-Delaroche, Bédos and Conti, and Dong and Ruan. The latter maps are shown to implement approximation properties, such as nuclearity or the Haagerup property, forA⋊α,rG.