Homology for operator algebras. II: Stable homology for non-self-adjoint algebras (Q1908174)

New homology groups are defined for a non-self-adjoint operator algebra which is based upon cycles and boundaries associated with complexes of partial isometries in the stable algebra. The paper is organized in the following way. In the first section, the author defines stable homology and remarks on the inadequacies of some variants of this definition. In section 2, he identifies stable homology in some fundamental settings namely, (i) the tensor product of a digraph algebra and a general \(C^*\)-algebra, (ii) non-self-adjoint subalgebras of factors determined by a finite lattice of commuting projections, and (iii) regular limits of digraph algebras. Several applications are given in sections 3-5. Section 3 is concerned entirely with finite-dimensional matters: regular subalgebras of digraph algebras, rigid embeddings, and the \(K_0\oplus H_*\) uniqueness property, particularly in the context of cycles, suspensions, discrete tori, and the cube algebra. In section 4, the author indicates how such classifications may be extended to similar settings in AF \(C^*\)-algebras by considering scaled homology groups. In the final section is illustrated how homology can appear in the classification of regular limit algebras. [For part I see ibid. 131, No. 1, 29-53 (1995)].