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Self-Similar Groups, Operator Algebras and Schur Complement JOURNAL OF MODERN DYNAMICS WEB SITE: http://www.math.psu.edu/jmd VOLUME 1, NO. 3, 2007, 323–370 SELF-SIMILAR GROUPS, OPERATOR ALGEBRAS AND SCHUR COMPLEMENT ROSTISLAV GRIGORCHUK AND VOLODYMYR NEKRASHEVYCH (Communicated by Svetlana Katok) Dedicated to the 70th birthday of D.V. Anosov ABSTRACT. In the first partof the article we introduce C ∗-algebras associated to self-similar groups and study their properties and relations to known alge- bras. The algebras are constructed as subalgebras of the Cuntz–Pimsner al- gebra (and its homomorphic images) associated with the self-similarity of the group. We study such properties as nuclearity, simplicity and Morita equiva- lence with algebras related to solenoids. The second part deals with Schur complement transformations of elements of self-similar algebras. We study the properties of such transformations and apply them to the spectral problem for Markov type elements in self-similar C algebras. This is related to the spectral problem of the discrete Laplace ∗− operator on groups and graphs. Application of the Schur complement method in many situations reduces thespectral problemto study of invariantsets (very often of the type of a “strange attractor”) of a multidimensional rational trans- formation. A number of illustrating examples is provided. Finally, we ob- serve a relation between Schur complement transformations and Bartholdi– Kaimanovich–Virag transformations of random walks on self-similar groups. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 324 2. Self-similar groups 327 2.1. Definition 327 2.2. Iterated monodromy groups 331 3. Self-similar algebras 332 3.1. Self-similarities of Hilbert spaces 332 3.2. Representations of the Cuntz algebra Od 333 3.3. Self-similar groups and their representations 334 Received March 7, 2007, revised April 27, 2007. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 37F10, 47A10, 20E08. Key words and phrases: self-similar groups, self-similarity, Cuntz-Pimsner algebra, Schur com- plement, renormalization, Markov operator, spectrum, matrix recursion, hyperbolic dynamics, rational maps, Moore diagram, Mealy automaton, amenability, random walks, Münchhausen trick, self-affine measure, Grigorchuk group, iterated monodromy groups, limit space. Partially supported by NSF grants DMS-0456185 and DMS-0600975 (Grigorchuk) and by NSF grant DMS-0605019 (Nekrashevych). 323 ©2007 AIMSCIENCES 324 ROSTISLAV GRIGORCHUK AND VOLODYMYR NEKRASHEVYCH 3.4. Matrix recursions 335 3.5. Self-similar completions of the group algebra 336 3.6. Gauge-invariant subalgebra of OG 338 3.7. Overview of algebras associated with self-similar groups 339 4. Contracting groups and limit solenoids 340 4.1. Matrix recursion for contracting groups 340 4.2. Limit solenoid 342 4.3. The solenoid as a hyperbolic dynamical system 344 5. Schur complements and rational multidimensional dynamics 346 5.1. Schur complements of operators 346 5.2. Schur complements in self-similar algebras 349 6. Analytic families 359 7. Schur maps and random walks 362 1. INTRODUCTION Self-similar groups is a class of groups which attracts more and more atten- tion of researchers from different areas of mathematics—particularly from group theory. Self-similar groups (whose study was initiated by R. Grigorchuk, N. Gupta, S. Sidki, A. Brunner, P.M. Neumann, and others) possesses many nice and un- usual properties which allow one to solve difficult problems of group theory and related areas, including problems in Riemannian geometry and holomorphic dy- namics. They are closely related to groups generated by finite automata (stud- ied by J. Hoˇrejš, V.M. Glushkov, S. V. Aleshin, V.I. Sushchanski and others) and many of them belong to another interesting class of groups—the class of branch groups. We recommend the following sources for the basic definitions and prop- erties [39, 4, 24, 53]. One of the main featuresthat makes the class of self-similar groups important is that it makes possible the treatment of the renorm group in a noncommuta- tive setting. This passage from cyclic to a noncommutative renormalization can be compared with the passage from classical to noncommutative geometry, i.e., passage from commutative C ∗-algebras of continuous functions to noncommu- tative C ∗-algebras (see [10]). Recent research shows that operator algebras also play an important role in the theory of self-similar groups and show interesting connections to other areas (for instance with hyperbolic dynamics). The first appearance of C ∗ algebras − related to self-similar groups was in [3] and was related to the problem of com- putation of the spectra of Markov type operators on the Schreier graphs related to self-similar groups. In [42] the methods of [3] were interpreted in terms of the Cuntz–Pimsner algebras of the Hilbert bimodules associated with self-similar groups. It was proved in [42] that there exists a smallest self-similar norm (i.e., JOURNAL OF MODERN DYNAMICS VOLUME 1, NO. 3 (2007), 323–370 SELF-SIMILAR GROUPS, OPERATOR ALGEBRAS AND SCHUR COMPLEMENT 325 norm which agrees with the bimodule) and that the Cuntz–Pimsner algebra con- structed using the completion of the group algebra by the smallest norm is sim- ple and purely infinite. This article is a survey of results and ideas on the interplay of self-similar groups, renormalization, self-similar operator algebras, spectra of Markov op- erators, and random walks. We continue the study of self-similar completions of the group algebra started in [3]and [42]. We prove existence of the largest self-similar norm on the group algebra and define the maximal Cuntz–Pimsner algebra and maximal self-similar completion of the group algebra (Propositions 3.4 and 3.6). Our starting point is the observation that self-similarities of a Hilbert space H (i.e., isomorphisms between H and its d th, d 2 power H d ) are in a natural − ≥ bijection with the representations of the Cuntz algebra Od . Then we consider self-similar unitary representations of a self-similar group and following [42] de- fine the associated universal Cuntz–Pimsner algebra OG . The algebra OG is uni- versal in the sense that any unitary self-similar representation of the group can be extended to a representation of OG . Homomorphic images of OG can be constructed using different self-similar representations of G. Among important self-similar representations we study the natural unitary representation of G on L2(Xω,ν), where Xω is the boundary of the rooted tree on which G acts and ν is the uniform Bernoulli measure on it. Another important class of self-similar rep- resentations are permutational representations of G on countable G-invariant subsets of Xω. The sub-C ∗-algebra of OG generated by G is denoted Amax. For every homo- morphic image of the Cuntz–Pimsner algebra OG we get the respective image of Amax. The algebra Amin, for instance, is defined as the image of Amax under a permutational representation of G on a generic self-similar G-invariant count- ω able set of X (which can be extended to a permutational representation of OG in a natural way). The algebra Amin was studied in [3]and[42]. Similarly, the alge- 2 ω bra Ames generated by the natural representation of G (and of OG ) on L (X ,ν), is considered. This algebra is particularly convenient for spectral computations (see Subsection 5.2). It is convenient in many cases to pass to a bigger subalgebra of OG than Amax. It is the algebra generated by G and the union of the matrix algebras Md d (C) × naturally constructed inside O O . It is proved in [40] that this algebra, de- d ⊂ G noted Md ∞ (G), is the universal algebra of the groupoid of germs of the action of G on the boundary Xω of the rooted tree. This makes it possible to apply the well-developed theory of C ∗-algebras associated to groupoids to the study of OG and Amax. For every homomorphic image of OG (i.e., for every self-similar representa- tion of G) we get the corresponding image of Md ∞ (G). In Section 4 we show a relation of self-similar groups and algebras to hyper- bolic dynamics. If a self-similar group G is contracting, then there is a natural Smale space associated to it (the limit solenoid). It is a dynamical system (SG ,s) JOURNAL OF MODERN DYNAMICS VOLUME 1, NO. 3 (2007), 323–370b 326 ROSTISLAV GRIGORCHUK AND VOLODYMYR NEKRASHEVYCH with hyperbolic behavior: the space SG has a local structure of a direct product such that the homeomorphism s is contracting on one factor and expanding on the other. We prove in Theorem 4.12 that the algebra Md ∞ (G) is Morita equiva- lent in this case to the convolutionb algebra of the unstable equivalence relation on the limit solenoid. Such convolution algebras were studied by J. Kaminker, I. Putnam and J. Spielberg in [46, 32, 45]. The algebras Amax, Md ∞ (G) and their images under self-similar representa- tions of G have a nice self-similarity structure described by matrix recursions, which encode the structure of the Moore diagrams of the Mealy type automata defining the underlying group. This self-similarity is used in the second part of the article in the study of spectra of elements of the involved algebra. In Section 5, we recall the classical Schur complement transformation, which is used in linear algebra for solving systems of linear equations, in statistics for finding conditional variance of multivariate Gaussian random variables and in Bruhat normal form (see [11, 9]). We show in our article that Schur complement is also useful in the study of spectral problems in self-similar algebras and that it can be nicely expressed in terms of the Cuntz algebra. We establish some simple properties of the Schur complement transformations and introduce a semigroup of such transformations. The method that we use to treat the spectral problem could be a first step in generalization of the method of Malozemov and Teplyaev that they developed for the study of spectra of self-similar graphs related to classical fractals (like the Sierpinski gasket) [55, 36].
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