Separable representations of higher-rank graphs

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Authors Carla Farsi, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Palle Jorgensen, Sooran Kang, Judith A. Packer

Publication date 2 September 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of associative rings and algebras (16Gxx) Representations of topological algebras with involution (46K10) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55)

Abstract: In this monograph we undertake a comprehensive study of separable representations (as well as their unitary equivalence classes) of $C^{\ast }$-algebras associated to strongly connected finite $k$-graphs $Lambda$. We begin with the representations associated to the $Lambda$-semibranching function systems introduced by Farsi, Gillaspy, Kang, and Packer in cite{FGKP}, by giving an alternative characterization of these systems which is more easily verified in examples. We present a variety of such examples, one of which we use to construct a new faithful separable representation of any row-finite source-free $k$-graph. Next, we analyze the monic representations of $C^{\ast }$-algebras of finite $k$-graphs. We completely characterize these representations, generalizing results of Dutkay and Jorgensen cite{dutkay-jorgensen-monic} and Bezuglyi and Jorgensen cite{bezuglyi-jorgensen} for Cuntz and Cuntz-Krieger algebras respectively. We also describe a universal representation for non-negative monic representations of finite, strongly connected $k$-graphs. To conclude, we characterize the purely atomic and permutative representations of $k$-graph $C^{\ast }$-algebras, and discuss the relationship between these representations and the classes of representations introduced earlier.

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