Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 May 2020
Let $\Theta =(\theta _{j,k})_{3\times 3}$ be a nondegenerate real skew-symmetric
$3\times 3$ matrix, where
$\theta _{j,k}\in [0,1).$ For any
$\varepsilon>0$, we prove that there exists
$\delta>0$ satisfying the following: if
$v_1,v_2,v_3$ are three unitaries in any unital simple separable
$C^*$-algebra A with tracial rank at most one, such that
$\tau \in T(A)$ and
$j,k=1,2,3,$ where
$\log _{\theta }$ is a continuous branch of logarithm (see Definition 4.13) for some real number
$\theta \in [0, 1)$, then there exists a triple of unitaries
$\tilde {v}_1,\tilde {v}_2,\tilde {v}_3\in A$ such that
The same conclusion holds if $\Theta $ is rational or nondegenerate and A is a nuclear purely infinite simple
$C^*$-algebra (where the trace condition is vacuous).
If $\Theta $ is degenerate and A has tracial rank at most one or is nuclear purely infinite simple, we provide some additional injectivity conditions to get the above conclusion.