Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $A$ be an amenable separable ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra and $B$ be a non-unital but $\sigma $-unital simple ${{C}^{*}}$- algebra with continuous scale. We show that two essential extensions ${{\tau }_{1}}$ and ${{\tau }_{2}}$ of $A$ by $B$ are approximately unitarily equivalent if and only if
If $A$ is assumed to satisfy the Universal Coefficient Theorem, there is a bijection from approximate unitary equivalence classes of the above mentioned extensions to $KL\left( A,\,M\left( B \right)/B \right)$. Using $KL\left( A,\,M\left( B \right)/B \right)$, we compute exactly when an essential extension is quasidiagonal. We show that quasidiagonal extensions may not be approximately trivial. We also study the approximately trivial extensions.