Mean dimension and AH-algebras with diagonal maps

TL;DR

This paper introduces mean dimension for AH-algebras, demonstrating that zero mean dimension implies strict comparison and classifies certain AH-algebras with this property, linking it to trace properties and dimension growth.

Contribution

It establishes the concept of mean dimension for AH-algebras and connects zero mean dimension with strict comparison and classification results.

Findings

AH-algebras with mean dimension zero have strict comparison on positive elements.

AH-algebras with zero mean dimension are without dimension growth.

Two classes of AH-algebras are shown to have mean dimension zero.

Abstract

Mean dimension for AH-algebras is introduced. It is shown that if a simple unital AH-algebra with diagonal maps has mean dimension zero, then it has strict comparison on positive elements. In particular, the strict order on projections is determined by traces. Moreover, a lower bound of the mean dimension is given in term of comparison radius. Using classification results, if a simple unital AH-algebra with diagonal maps has mean dimension zero, it must be an AH-algebra without dimension growth. Two classes of AH-algebras are shown to have mean dimension zero: the class of AH-algebras with at most countably many extremal traces, and the class of AH-algebras with numbers of extreme traces which induce same state on the K0-group being uniformly bounded (in particular, this class includes AH-algebras with real rank zero).