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We study the rapid decay property and polynomial growth for duals of bicrossed products coming from a matched pair of a discrete group and a compact group, submitted version, to appear in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry

We show that many countable groups acting on trees, including free products of infinite countable groups and surface groups, are isomorphic to dense subgroups of isometry groups of bounded Urysohn spaces. This extends previous results of the first and last author with Y. Stalder on dense subgroups of the automorphism group of the random graph. In the unbounded case, we also show that every free product of infinite countable groups arises as a dense subgroup of the isometry group of the rational Urysohn space., Comment: Final version, to appear in Colloquium Mathematicum

We prove a long exact sequence in KK-theory for both full and reduced amalgamated free products in the presence of conditional expectations. In the course of the proof, we established the KK-equivalence between the full amalgamated free product of two unital C*-algebras and a newly defined reduced amalgamated free product that is valid even for non GNS-faithful conditional expectations. Our results unify, simplify and generalize all the previous results obtained before by Cuntz, Germain and Thomsen., V.3, the paper has been splitted into two papers, this is the first part on amalgamated free products

Given a graph of C*-algebras, we prove a long exact sequence in KK-theory for both the maximal and the vertex-reduced fundamental C*-algebras in the presence of possibly non GNS-faithful conditional expectations. We deduce from it the KK-equivalence between the full fundamental C*-algebra and the vertex-reduced fundamental C*-algebra even for non GNS-faithful conditional expectations. Our results unify, simplify and generalize all the previous results obtained before by Cuntz, Pimsner, Germain and Thomsen. It also generalizes the previous results of the authors on amalgamated free products., V1, 27p: the paper arXiv:1510.02418 has been splitted into two papers. It is the second part on fundamental C*-algebras

In this paper we are interested in examples of locally compact quantum groups $(M,\Delta)$ such that both von Neumann algebras, $M$ and the dual $\hat{M}$, are factors. There is a lot of known examples such that $(M,\hat{M})$ are respectively of type $(\rm{I}\_{\infty},\rm{I}\_{\infty})$ but there is no examples with factors of other types. We construct new examples of type $(\rm{I}\_{\infty},\rm{II}\_{\infty})$, $(\rm{II}\_{\infty},\rm{II}\_{\infty})$ and $(\rm{III}\_{\lambda},\rm{III}\_{\lambda})$ for each $\lambda\in [0,1]$. Also we show that there is no such example with $M$ or $\hat{M}$ a finite factor., Comment: 20 pages

We make a comprehensive and self-contained study of compact bicrossed products arising from matched pairs of discrete groups and compact groups. We exhibit an automatic regularity property of such a matched pair and and produce an easy construction of the associated bicrossed product $\mathbb{G}$. We investigate the relative co-property $(T)$ and the relative co-Haagerup property of the pair comprising of the compact group and the bicrossed product, discuss property $(T)$ and Haagerup property of the discrete dual $\widehat{\mathbb{G}}$, and review co-amenability of $\mathbb{G}$ as well. We distinguish two such non-trivial compact bicrossed products with relative co-property $(T)$ and also provide an infinite family of pairwise non isomorphic non-trivial discrete quantum groups with property $(T)$, the existence of even one of the latter was unknown. Finally, we examine all the properties mentioned above for the crossed product quantum group given by an action by quantum automorphisms of a discrete group on a compact quantum group, and also establish the permanence of rapid decay and weak amenability and provide several explicit examples., V3: correction of two mistakes one in Theorem 3.4 and one Lemma 5.2

We show that the orthogonal free quantum groups are not inner amenable and we construct an explicit proper cocycle weakly contained in the regular representation. This strengthens the result of Vaes and the second author, showing that the associated von Neumann algebras are full II_1-factors and Brannan's result showing that the orthogonal free quantum groups have Haagerup's approximation property. We also deduce Ozawa-Popa's property strong (HH) and give a new proof of Isono's result about strong solidity., 18 pages ; v3 corrects a technical mistake in the proof of Lemma 3.9

Building on a construction of J-P. Serre, we associate to any graph of C*-algebras a maximal and a reduced fundamental C*-algebra and use this theory to construct the fundamental quantum group of a graph of discrete quantum groups. This construction naturally gives rise to a quantum Bass-Serre tree which can be used to study the K-theory of the fundamental quantum group. To illustrate the properties of this construction, we prove that if all the vertex qantum groups are amenable, then the fundamental quantum group is K-amenable. This generalizes previous results of P. Julg, A. Valette, R. Vergnioux and the first author., 38 pages

We study qualitative properties of the group von Neumann algebra of a Baumslag-Solitar group. Namely, we prove that, in the non-amenable and {ICC} case, the associated ${\rm II}_1$ factor is prime, not solid, and does not have any Cartan subalgebra.

We give a simple definition of property T for discrete quantum groups, and prove the basic expected properties: discrete quantum groups with property T are finitely generated and unimodular. Moreover we show that, for "I.C.C." discrete quantum groups, property T is equivalent to Connes' property T for the dual von Neumann algebra. This allows us to give the first example of a property T discrete quantum group which is not a group using the twisting construction.

We construct a one parameter deformation of the group of 2×2 upper triangular matrices with determinant 1 using the twisting construction. An interesting feature of this new example of a locally compact quantum group is that the Haar measure is deformed in a non-trivial way. Also, we give a complete description of the dual C∗-algebra and the dual comultiplication. Побудовано однопараметричну деформацію групи верхніх трикутних матриць розміру 2 × 2 із детермінантом 1 з використанням конструкції скруту. Цікавою рисою цього нового прикладу локально компактної квантової групи є нетривіальна деформація міри Хаара. Наведено також повний опис дуальної C*-алгебри та дуальної комультиплікації.

We develop the twisting construction for locally compact quantum groups. A new feature, in contrast to the previous work of M. Enock and the second author, is a non-trivial deformation of the Haar measure. Then we construct Rieffel's deformation of locally compact quantum groups and show that it is dual to the twisting. This allows to give new interesting concrete examples of locally compact quantum groups, in particular, deformations of the classical $az+b$ group and of the Woronowicz' quantum $az+b$ group.

This thesis is concerned with the construction of a family of quantum transformation groupoids in the algebraic framework in the form of measured multiplier Hopf *-algebroids in the sense of Timmermann and Van Daele and also in the context of operator algebras in the form of Hopf C*-bimodules on a C*-base in the sense of Timmermann. In the purely algebraic context, we first give a definition of a braided commutative Yetter-Drinfeld *-algebra over an algebraic quantum group in the sense of Van Daele and a Yetter-Drinfeld integral on it. Then, using these objects we construct a measured multiplier Hopf *-algebroid, we call to this new object an algebraic quantum transformation groupoid. In order to pass to the operator algebra framework, we give some conditions on the Yetter-Drinfeld integral inspired by the properties of KMS-weights on C*-algebras which will allow us to use the Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction to extend all the purely algebraic objects to the C*-algebraic level. At this level, we construct in a similar way to that used in the work of Enock and Timmermann, a new mathematical object that we call a C*-algebraic quantum transformation groupoid, which is defined using the language of Hopf C*-bimodules on C*-bases.; Cette thèse porte sur la construction d'une famille de groupoïdes quantiques de transformations qui dans le cadre algébrique sont des algébroïdes de Hopf de multiplicateurs mesurés au sens de Timmermann et Van Daele et qui dans le cadre des algèbres d'opérateurs sont des C*-bimodules de Hopf sur une C*-base au sens de Timmermann. Dans le contexte purement algébrique, nous définissons d'abord une algèbre involutive de Yetter-Drinfeld tressée commutative sur un groupe quantique algébrique au sens de Van Daele et une intégrale de Yetter-Drinfeld sur elle. En utilisant ces objets nous construisons après un algébroide de Hopf de multiplicateurs involutif mesuré, ce nouvel objet nous l'appellons groupoïde quantique algébrique de transformations.Pour être capables de passer au cadre des algèbres d'opérateurs, nous donnons des conditions sur l'intégral de Yetter-Drinfeld qui vont nous permettre d'utiliser la construction Gelfand–Naimark–Segal pour étendre tous nos objets purement algébriques en des objets C*-algébriques. Dans ce contexte, notre construction se fait d'une manière similaire à celle présentée dans le travail de Enock et Timmermann, nous obtenons un nouvel objet mathématique que nous appellons un groupoïde quantique C*-algébrique de transformations, qui est définit en utilisant le langage des C*-bimodules de Hopf sur une C*-base.