Semicrossed products of the disc algebra

Abstract

If $α$ is the endomorphism of the disk algebra, $\AD$, induced by composition with a finite Blaschke product $b$, then the semicrossed product $\AD\times_α \bZ^+$ imbeds canonically, completely isometrically into $\rC(\bT)\times_α \bZ^+$. Hence in the case of a non-constant Blaschke product $b$, the C*-envelope has the form $ \rC(§_{b})\times_{s} \bZ$, where $(§_{b}, s)$ is the solenoid system for $(\bT, b)$. In the case where $b$ is a constant, then the C*-envelope of $\AD\times_α \bZ^+$ is strongly Morita equivalent to a crossed product of the form $ \rC(§_{e})\times_{s} \bZ$, where $e \colon \bT \times \bN \longrightarrow \bT \times \bN$ is a suitable map and $(§_{e}, s)$ is the solenoid system for $(\bT \times \bN, \, e)$ .

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