Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4591780 Journal of Functional Analysis 2007 33 Pages PDF
Abstract

Let G be a locally compact Abelian group. Following Ruy Exel, we view Fell bundles over the Pontrjagin dual group of G as continuous spectral decompositions of G-actions on C∗-algebras. We classify such spectral decompositions using certain dense subspaces related to Marc Rieffel's theory of square-integrability. There is a unique continuous spectral decomposition if the group acts properly on the primitive ideal space of the C∗-algebra. But there are also examples of group actions without or with several inequivalent spectral decompositions.

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