Obstructions to the full Hao-Ng isomorphism

Abstract

We show that the Hao-Ng isomorphism for full crossed products fails to hold. More precisely, for a non-degenerate $C^*$-correspondence $X$ over a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$ and a generalized gauge action $G \curvearrowright X$ by a locally compact group $G$, we isolate three structural obstructions for the canonical commutation $\mathcal{O}_X\rtimes G \cong \mathcal{O}_{X\rtimes G}$ between full crossed product and Cuntz--Pimsner $C^*$-algebra. The first concerns the lack of hyperrigidity, the second is the lack of WEP of the coefficient $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{A}$, and the third concerns the lack of coincidence of full and reduced crossed products by the action of $G$ on $\mathcal{A}$.