Operator algebras associated with unitary commutation relations (Q630774)

The paper is devoted to a classification of a certain class of nonselfadjoint operator algebras. Namely, it is considered an operator algebra generated by freely noncommuting operators \(L_{e_{1}},\dots ,L_{e_{n}}\) and \(L_{f_{1}}, \dots ,L_{f_{m}}\) subject to the unitary commutation relations of the form \(L_{e_{i}}L_{f_{j}}={\sum _{k,l}} u_{i,j,k,l}L_{f_{l}}L_{e_{k}}\), where \(u=(u_{i,j,k,l})\) is an \(nm\times nm\) unitary matrix. These algebras generalize the analytic Toeplitz algebras of rank 2 graphs with a single vertex. The operator algebras considered are classified in terms of the unitary matrices \(u\). One of the central results of the paper asserts that, if \(n\neq m\), then the algebras determined by the unitary matrices \(u\) and \(v\) are isomorphic if and only if \(u\) and \(v\) are unitary equivalent by a unitary \(a\otimes b \in M_{n}\bigotimes M_{m}\).