%0 Journal Article %T The Jiang-Su algebra revisited %A Mikael Rordam %A Wilhelm Winter %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X We give a number of new characterizations of the Jiang-Su algebra Z, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in terms of C*-algebraic, dynamical, topological and K-theoretic conditions. Along the way we study divisibility properties of C*-algebras, we give a precise characterization of those unital C*-algebras of stable rank one that admit a unital embedding of the dimension-drop C*-algebra Z_{n,n+1}, and we prove a cancellation theorem for the Cuntz semigroup of C*-algebras of stable rank one. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2259v1