Poincaré duality for Cuntz-Pimsner algebras (Q1735496)

The authors provide a new approach to Poincaré duality for Cuntz-Pimsner algebras, emphasizing the interaction between the dynamics defined by a bimodule and the topology of its coefficient algebra. Concretely, given a coefficient algebra $A$ satisfying Poincaré self-duality (meaning that $A$ is Poincaré dual to its opposite), the authors consider an $A$-$A$-correspondence $E$, and they aim to lift the Poincaré self-duality for $A$ to a duality for the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra $\mathcal{O}_E$ associated to $E$. At this point, there is a choice for what the dual object should be: the possibilities are either the opposite algebra of $\mathcal{O}_E$, or the Cuntz algebra associated to the opposite correspondence of $E$. Although these are isomorphic algebras whenever $E$ implements a Morita equivalence, and then these two choices agree, but they are in general different. One of the main results of this work provides checkable conditions, for both possible dual algebras, on potential $K$-theory and $K$-homology fundamental classes that guarantee that they implement a Poincaré duality for $\mathcal{O}_E$. The authors also provide a number of classes of examples to which their results apply, including algebras of topological graphs over manifolds and crossed products by injective endomorphisms.