Bundles of C*-categories, II: C*-dynamical systems and Dixmier-Douady invariants

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2008-06-16

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2520v3

Journal of Functional Analysis 257 (2009) 357-387

Mathematics

Operator Algebras

27 pages; contains a revised version of the second part of math/0510594v1. A new section on gauge actions on C*-bundles has be

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We introduce a cohomological invariant arising from a class in nonabelian cohomology. This invariant generalizes the Dixmier-Douady class and encodes the obstruction to a C*-algebra bundle being the fixed-point algebra of a gauge action. As an application, the duality breaking for group bundles vs. tensor C*-categories with non-simple unit is discussed in the setting of Nistor-Troitsky gauge-equivariant K-theory: there is a map assigning a nonabelian gerbe to a tensor category, and "triviality" of the gerbe is equivalent to the existence of a dual group bundle. At the C*-algebraic level, this corresponds to studying C*-algebra bundles with fibre a fixed-point algebra of the Cuntz algebra and in this case our invariant describes the obstruction to finding an embedding into the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra of a vector bundle.

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