Leavitt path algebras are graded von Neumann regular rings. (Q397982)

In this work it is proved that the Leavitt path algebra of any arbitrary graph is a graded von Neumann regular ring. To prove this, the author starts with finite graphs. He shows that removing the sources of a graph does not change the associated Leavitt path algebra (up to graded Morita equivalence). And since the graded regularity is a graded Morita invariant property, the author starts without loss of generality with a finite graph with no sources. In the first sections it is proved that Leavitt path algebras of finite graphs with no sources can be realised as corner skew Laurent polynomial rings. For these rings, the author proves that if \(R\) is a ring with identity and \(A=R[t_+,t_-,\varphi]\) is a corner skew Laurent polynomial ring, then \(A\) is a graded von Neumann regular ring if and only if \(R\) is a von Neumann regular ring. So, the result can be proved for Leavitt path algebras associated to finite graphs. Since a row-finite graph can be written as a direct union of finite graphs, the author extends the result to Leavitt path algebras of row-finite graphs (given that a direct limit of graded regular rings is again graded regular). Next the result is extended to countable graphs. Assigning a suitable non-canonical grading to the Leavitt path algebra of the given countable graph, this can be embedded into its desingularisation which is row-finite. Finally the result is extended to Leavitt path algebras of arbitrary graphs by using Goodearl's treatment of Leavitt path algebras of arbitrary graphs as a direct limit of Leavitt path algebras of countable graphs.