Endomorphisms of graph algebras (Q1760169)

In a series of papers -- we only mention [J. Reine Angew. Math. 667, 177--191 (2012; Zbl 1283.46041)] -- the authors have studied endomorphisms of the Cuntz algebras \({\mathcal O}_n\). In the paper under review, the authors continue and extend this study by examining endomorphisms and automorphisms of graph algebras. Thereby, they mainly restrict themselves to finite graphs without sinks in which every loop has an exit, and endomorphisms and automorphisms which fix the core AF-algebra or the diagonal maximal abelian subalgebra (MASA). In Section 2, the authors point out that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of those unital endomorphisms of the graph algebra that preserve the vertex projections and the set of those unitaries of the multiplier algebra of the graph algebra that commute with the vertex projections. The link between these unitaries and endomorphisms is given by disturbing the generating partial isometries of degree one with the given unitary, whereas the vertex projections are left fixed. (Such a link between unitaries and endomorphisms was considered for Cuntz algebras by \textit{J. Cuntz} in [Quantum fields -- algebras, processes, Proc. Symp., Bielefeld 1978, 187--196 (1980; Zbl 0475.46046)]). Such endomorphisms preserving the vertex projections play a dominant role in the paper under review. Then, in the following sections, there follows a wealth of facts and information on such endomorphisms; stating all of them would go beyond the scope of this review. To summarize some aspects, the authors give conditions when endomorphisms preserving the vertex projections are automorphisms, when they are inner, and when they fix the MASA. Moreover, they investigate the Weyl group (quotient of the group of those automorphisms preserving the vertex projections and leaving the MASA invariant by its subgroup of automorphisms which leave every element of the MASA fixed). In the last section, the reader is provided with examples. Most of the material seems to be proved by a direct analysis of the corresponding graphs and these endomorphisms.