CORE SYMMETRIES OF A FLOW

Abstract

For a flow α on a C*-algebra one defines a symmetry as the group of automorphisms γ such that γαγ-1 is a cocycle perturbation of α. We propose to define a core of this symmetry, which acts trivially on the set of equivalence classes of KMS state representations, but may act non-trivially on the set of equivalence classes of covariant irreducible representations. In particular this core acts transitively on the set of those which induce faithful representations of the crossed product by α.