Traceless AF embeddings and unsuspended $E$-theory

Abstract

I show that quasidiagonality and AF embeddability are equivalent properties for traceless $\mathrm C^\ast$-algebras and are characterised in terms of the primitive ideal space. For nuclear $\mathrm C^\ast$-algebras the same characterisation determines when Connes and Higson's $E$-theory can be unsuspended.