Groupoid and inverse semigroup presentations of ultragraph C^*-algebras

DOI10.1007/S00233-008-9046-8MaRDI QIDQ1006329zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alberto E. Marrero, Paul S. Muhly

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2281

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilityCuntz-Krieger familyessentially principal groupoidinverse semigrouprepresentationsultragraph \(C^*\)-algebraultragraph groupoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (05C99) Inverse semigroups (20M18) Representation of semigroups; actions of semigroups on sets (20M30) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55)

Abstract: Inspired by the work of Paterson on $C^{ast}$-algebras of directed graphs, we show how to associate a groupoid $mathfrak{G}_{mathcalG}$ to an ultragraph $mathcalG$ in such a way that the $C^{\ast }$-algebra of $mathfrak{G}_{mathcalG}$ is canonically isomorphic to Tomforde's $C^{\ast }$-algebra $C^{\ast }(mathcalG)$. The groupoid $mathfrak{G}_{mathcalG}$ is built from an inverse semigroup $S_{mathcalG}$ naturally associated to $mathcalG$.

Review text

\textit{Ultragraphs} generalize the notion of a directed graph, allowing the range of an edge to be a set of vertices instead of a single vertex. They were considered by \textit{M.\,Tomforde} [``A unified approach to Exel-Laca algebras and \(C^*\)-algebras associated to graphs, J.~Oper.\ Theory 50, No.\,2, 345--368 (2003; Zbl 1061.46048)], who associated to each ultragraph \({\mathcal G}\), through a generalized Cuntz-Krieger type construction, a \(C^*\)-algebra \(C^*({\mathcal G})\). This \(C^*\)-algebra class strictly contains both Exel-Laca and graph \(C^*\)-algebras, which in turn are generalizations of Cuntz-Krieger algebras to situations where the size of the defining transition matrix is no longer finite. Some dictionary between properties of \(C^*({\mathcal G})\) (being simple, AF or purely infinite) and properties of \({\mathcal G}\) was also established by \textit{M.\,Tomforde} [``Simplicity of ultragraph algebras, Indiana Univ.\ Math.\ J.\ 52, No.\,4, 901--925 (2003; Zbl 1080.46046)]. The paper under review develops a groupoid model for Tomforde's ultragraph \(C^*\)-algebras, extending \textit{A.\,L.\,T.\thinspace Paterson}'s approach to graph \(C^*\)-algebras [``Graph inverse semigroups, groupoids, and their \(C^*\)-algebras, J.~Oper.\ Theory 48, No.\,3, 645--662 (2002; Zbl 1031.46060)]. An inverse semigroup \(S_{\mathcal G}\) is naturally constructed, reflecting the representation theory of the ultragraph \({\mathcal G}\) by partial isometries on Hilbert spaces. The groupoid \({\mathfrak G}_{\mathcal G}\) is then built as a reduction of the universal groupoid of \(S_{\mathcal G}\). It is proved that \(C^*({\mathcal G}) \cong C^* ({\mathfrak G}_{\mathcal G})\) when there are no sinks in \({\mathcal G}\), and that the ultragraph groupoid \({\mathfrak G}_{\mathcal G}\) is amenable. The simplicity of \(C^*({\mathcal G})\) is also investigated in the groupoid setting, when \({\mathcal G}\) has the so-called property (K) that any vertex which hosts a loop hosts at least two distinct loops.

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