Bellissard's Gap Labeling Conjecture for Cantor actions

Let Σ\Sigma be a Cantor set, meaning a compact, totally disconnected metric space without isolated points, and let Zn\mathbb{Z}^{n} act freely and minimally on Σ\Sigma, with invariant probability measure μ\mu. The measure induces a trace μ:C(Σ)C\mu:C(\Sigma)\to\mathbb{C}, while the action induces the crossed-product algebra C(Σ)ZnC(\Sigma)\rtimes\mathbb{Z}^{n} and its trace τμ:C(Σ)ZnC\tau_{\mu}:C(\Sigma)\rtimes\mathbb{Z}^{n}\to\mathbb{C}. Write the induced maps on K-theory with the same symbols. Bellissard's Gap Labeling Conjecture. One has

μ(K0(C(Σ)))=τμ(K0(C(Σ)Zn)).\mu(K_{0}(C(\Sigma)))=\tau_{\mu}(K_{0}(C(\Sigma)\rtimes\mathbb{Z}^{n})).

The conjecture identifies the possible spectral gaps of associated Schrödinger operators with the range of the canonical trace on the K-theory of the crossed-product algebra. The paper presents a proof using an appropriate version of Connes' index theorem for foliated spaces, so the claim is solved in this source.

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Jerome Kaminker and Ian Putnam, “A proof of the Gap Labeling Conjecture”, arXiv:math/0205102 (2002).

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