Finite-dimensional approximations for C*-algebras of product systems

Abstract

We study C*-algebras generated by representations of product systems over unital subsemigroups of amenable discrete groups. In the first part, we show that exactness of the generated C*-algebra is equivalent to exactness of the cores over the constructible ideals. Nuclearity of the generated C*-algebra is equivalent to nuclear embeddability of the cores in the fixed point algebra. In the second part, we further study injective equivariant Fock covariant representations, and whether the properties of the cores are inherited from properties of the coefficient C*-algebra, as in the case of compactly aligned saturated product systems over right LCM semigroups. If the semigroup is finitely aligned and the product system is saturated and compactly aligned, then exactness of the cores is equivalent to exactness of the coefficient C*-algebra. If in addition the semigroup is strongly finitely aligned, then nuclear embeddability of the cores is equivalent to nuclear embeddability of the coefficient C*-algebra. These results do not hold without the compact alignment hypothesis, even for right LCM semigroups.