Simple Cuntz-Pimsner rings.

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Abstract: Necessary and sufficient conditions for when every non-zero ideal in a relative Cuntz-Pimsner ring contains a non-zero graded ideal, when a relative Cuntz-Pimsner ring is simple, and when every ideal in a relative Cuntz-Pimsner ring is graded, are given. A "Cuntz-Krieger uniqueness theorem" for relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings is also given and condition (L) and condition (K) for relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings are introduced.


Relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings are algebraic analogues of relative Cuntz-Pimsner \(C^*\)-algebras. This kind of rings generalizes several algebraic structures among which we can mention Leavitt path algebras. As in the case of Leavitt path algebras, relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings come equipped with a \(\mathbb Z\)-grading. In a paper by the two first authors in 2011, a complete description of all graded ideals of an arbitraty Cuntz-Pimsner ring is given. In the present paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are given to ensure that a nonzero ideal in a relative Cuntz-Pimsner ring contains a nonzero-graded ideal. Then, simplicity of relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings is characterized. Also necessary and sufficient conditions are given to determine when every ideal in a relative Cuntz-Pimsner ring is graded. The authors also introduce the natural analogues of condition (L) and condition (K) in relative Cuntz-Pimsner rings, so as to get results extending the ones for the corresponding classes of Leavitt path algebras. Finally the paper deals with a uniqueness result for the Toeplitz algebra of a directed graph and with characterizations of simple crossed products of a ring by a single automorphism and simple fractional skew monoid rings of a single corner isomorphism.











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