Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The notion of symbolic power dates back to W. Krull, who used it in the proof of the famous theorem of principal ideal, this a crucial milestone in the short history of commutative algebra. Later, O. Zariski, M. Nagata, D. Rees and others have shown how this purely algebraic notion has important signi cance in algebraic geometry. In this paper we study the symbolic powers showing some of its most fundamental properties and their connections with various aspects of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. / A no ção de potência simb ólica remonta a W. Krull, que a usou na prova do c élebre teorema do ideal principal, este um marco crucial na curta hist ória da álgebra comutativa. Mais adiante, O. Zariski, M. Nagata, D. Rees e outros mostraram como esta no ção puramente alg ébrica tem importante signi ficado em geometria alg ébrica. Neste trabalho estudaremos as potências simb ólicas evidenciando algumas de suas propriedades mais fundamentais e suas conexões com aspectos variados da geometria alg ébrica e álgebra comutativa.

We initiate the study of a new class of semigroup C*-algebras arising from number-theoretic considerations; namely, we generalize the construction of Cuntz, Deninger, and Laca by considering the left regular C*-algebras of ax+b-semigroups from actions of congruence monoids on rings of algebraic integers in number fields. Our motivation for considering actions of congruence monoids comes from class field theory and work on Bost–Connes type systems. We give two presentations and a groupoid model for these algebras, and establish a faithfulness criterion for their representations. We then explicitly compute the primitive ideal space, give a semigroup crossed product description of the boundary quotient, and prove that the construction is functorial in the appropriate sense. These C*-algebras carry canonical time evolutions, so that our construction also produces a new class of C*-dynamical systems. We classify the KMS (equilibrium) states for this canonical time evolution, and show that there are several phase transitions whose complexity depends on properties of a generalized ideal class group. We compute the type of all high temperature KMS states, and consider several related C*-dynamical systems. / Graduate