Noncommutative pressure and the variational principle in Cuntz-Krieger-type \(C^*\)-algebras (Q1604547)

Given a selfadjoint element \(a\) of an exact \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\) and a contractive completely positive map \(\theta: A \mapsto A\), a notion of dynamical pressure \(P_\theta(a)\) is defined, which adopts Voiculescu's approximation approach to noncommutative entropy and extends the Voiculescu-Brown topological entropy and Neshveyev and Stormer unital-nuclear pressure. A variational inequality bounding \(P_\theta(a)\) below by the free energies \(h_\sigma(\theta)+\sigma(a)\) with respect to the Sauvageot-Thouvenot entropy \(h_\sigma(\theta)\) is established. The authors extend Brown's result on the constancy of the Voiculescu-Brown entropy upon passing to the crossed product, and also they show that the pressure of a self-adjoint element over the Markov subshift underlying the canonical map on the Cuntz-Krieger algebra \({\mathcal O}_A\) is equal to its classical pressure. The latter result is extended to a more general setting including an expanded class of Cuntz-Krieger type Pimsner algebras, leading to the variational principle for self-adjoints elements in a diagonal subalgebra. Equilibrium states are constructed from KMS states under certain conditions in the case of Cuntz-Krieger algebras.