The Linear Span of Projections in AH Algebras and for Inclusions ofC*-Algebras

Abstract

In the first part of this paper, we show that an AH algebraA=lim→(Ai,ϕi)has the LP property if and only if every element of the centre ofAibelongs to the closure of the linear span of projections inA. As a consequence, a diagonal AH-algebra has the LP property if it has small eigenvalue variation in the sense of Bratteli and Elliott. The second contribution of this paper is that for an inclusion of unitalC*-algebrasP⊂Awith a finite Watatani index, if a faithful conditional expectationE:A→Phas the Rokhlin property in the sense of Kodaka et al., thenPhas the LP property under the condition thatAhas the LP property. As an application, letAbe a simple unitalC*-algebra with the LP property,αan action of a finite groupGontoAut(A). Ifαhas the Rokhlin property in the sense of Izumi, then the fixed point algebraAGand the crossed product algebraA ⋊α Ghave the LP property. We also point out that there is a symmetry on the CAR algebra such that its fixed point algebra does not have the LP property.