Crossed products by endomorphisms and reduction of relations in relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras (Q1948121)

The main goal of the article under review is to construct the crossed product of a \(C^*\)-algebra by an endomorphism. The construction is then placed in relation to several earlier constructions that were imposing certain types of additional hypotheses on the given endomorphism. The starting point is a unital \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\) and an endomorphism \(\alpha\). The crossed product is a new \(C^*\)-algebra which incorporates \(A\) as a coefficient algebra in a specific sense. An important ingredient is an ideal \(J\) orthogonal to the kernel of \(\alpha\). In fact, the authors argue that there is a choice for the universal crossed product precisely depending on the ideal \(J\). Due to the presence of an ideal in the construction, it is natural to discuss relations to relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras. An important technical ingredient is a reduction procedure that takes a \(C^*\)-correspondence and transforms it into a ``smallest'' \(C^*\)-correspondence that yields the same relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebra. For the new construction of the crossed products, the authors describe the internal structure and identify its relation to relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras.