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1. CJM Online first

an Huef, Astrid; Archbold, Robert John
 The C*-algebras of Compact Transformation Groups We investigate the representation theory of the crossed-product \$C^*\$-algebra associated to a compact group \$G\$ acting on a locally compact space \$X\$ when the stability subgroups vary discontinuously. Our main result applies when \$G\$ has a principal stability subgroup or \$X\$ is locally of finite \$G\$-orbit type. Then the upper multiplicity of the representation of the crossed product induced from an irreducible representation \$V\$ of a stability subgroup is obtained by restricting \$V\$ to a certain closed subgroup of the stability subgroup and taking the maximum of the multiplicities of the irreducible summands occurring in the restriction of \$V\$. As a corollary we obtain that when the trivial subgroup is a principal stability subgroup, the crossed product is a Fell algebra if and only if every stability subgroup is abelian. A second corollary is that the \$C^*\$-algebra of the motion group \$\mathbb{R}^n\rtimes \operatorname{SO}(n)\$ is a Fell algebra. This uses the classical branching theorem for the special orthogonal group \$\operatorname{SO}(n)\$ with respect to \$\operatorname{SO}(n-1)\$. Since proper transformation groups are locally induced from the actions of compact groups, we describe how some of our results can be extended to transformation groups that are locally proper. Keywords:compact transformation group, proper action, spectrum of a C*-algebra, multiplicity of a representation, crossed-product C*-algebra, continuous-trace C*-algebra, Fell algebraCategories:46L05, 46L55

2. CJM 2001 (vol 53 pp. 715)

Cushman, Richard; Śniatycki, Jędrzej
 Differential Structure of Orbit Spaces We present a new approach to singular reduction of Hamiltonian systems with symmetries. The tools we use are the category of differential spaces of Sikorski and the Stefan-Sussmann theorem. The former is applied to analyze the differential structure of the spaces involved and the latter is used to prove that some of these spaces are smooth manifolds. Our main result is the identification of accessible sets of the generalized distribution spanned by the Hamiltonian vector fields of invariant functions with singular reduced spaces. We are also able to describe the differential structure of a singular reduced space corresponding to a coadjoint orbit which need not be locally closed. Keywords:accessible sets, differential space, Poisson algebra, proper action, singular reduction, symplectic manifoldsCategories:37J15, 58A40, 58D19, 70H33