On C*-Algebras Associated with Subshifts

1997 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 357-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kengo Matsumoto

We construct and study C*-algebras associated with subshifts in symbolic dynamics as a generalization of Cuntz–Krieger algebras for topological Markov shifts. We prove some universal properties for the C*-algebras and give a criterion for them to be simple and purely infinite. We also present an example of a C*-algebra coming from a subshift which is not conjugate to a Markov shift.

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 937-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOSHIKAZU KATAYAMA ◽  
KENGO MATSUMOTO ◽  
YASUO WATATANI

Given a real number $\beta > 1$, we construct a simple purely infinite $C^*$-algebra ${\cal O}_{\beta}$ as a $C^*$-algebra arising from the $\beta$-subshift in the symbolic dynamics. The $C^*$-algebras $\{{\cal O}_{\beta} \}_{1<\beta \in {\Bbb R}}$ interpolate between the Cuntz algebras $\{{\cal O}_n\}_{1 < n \in {\Bbb N}}$. The K-groups for the $C^*$-algebras ${\cal O}_{\beta}$, $1 < \beta \in {\Bbb R}$, are computed so that they are completely classified up to isomorphism. We prove that the KMS-state for the gauge action on ${\cal O}_{\beta}$ is unique at the inverse temperature $\log \beta$, which is the topological entropy for the $\beta$-shift. Moreover, ${\cal O}_{\beta}$ is realized to be a universal $C^*$-algebra generated by $n-1=[\beta]$ isometries and one partial isometry with mutually orthogonal ranges and a certain relation coming from the sequence of $\beta$-expansion of $1$.


1986 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Archbold ◽  
Alexander Kumjian

A C*-algebra A is said to be approximately finite dimensional (AF) if it is the inductive limit of a sequence of finite dimensional C*-algebras(see [2], [5]). It is said to be nuclear if, for each C*-algebra B, there is a unique C*-norm on the *-algebraic tensor product A ⊗B [11]. Since finite dimensional C*-algebras are nuclear, and inductive limits of nuclear C*-algebras are nuclear [16];,every AF C*-algebra is nuclear. The family of nuclear C*-algebras is a large and well-behaved class (see [12]). The AF C*-algebras for a particularly tractable sub-class which has been completely classified in terms of the invariant K0 [7], [5].


2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOKE MEIER CARLSEN

By using C*-correspondences and Cuntz–Pimsner algebras, we associate to every subshift (also called a shift space) 𝖷 a C*-algebra [Formula: see text], which is a generalization of the Cuntz–Krieger algebras. We show that [Formula: see text] is the universal C*-algebra generated by partial isometries satisfying relations given by 𝖷. We also show that [Formula: see text] is a one-sided conjugacy invariant of 𝖷.


2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hartglass

AbstractWe study a canonical C* -algebra, 𝒮(Г,μ), that arises from a weighted graph (Г,μ), speci fic cases of which were previously studied in the context of planar algebras. We discuss necessary and sufficient conditions of the weighting that ensure simplicity and uniqueness of trace of 𝒮(Г,μ), and study the structure of its positive cone. We then study the *-algebra,𝒜, generated by the generators of 𝒮(Г,μ), and use a free differential calculus and techniques of Charlesworth and Shlyakhtenko as well as Mai, Speicher, and Weber to show that certain “loop” elements have no atoms in their spectral measure. After modifying techniques of Shlyakhtenko and Skoufranis to show that self adjoint elements x ∊ Mn(𝒜) have algebraic Cauchy transform, we explore some applications to eigenvalues of polynomials inWishart matrices and to diagrammatic elements in von Neumann algebras initially considered by Guionnet, Jones, and Shlyakhtenko.


2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Christ ◽  
Marc A. Rieòel

AbstractLet be a length function on a group G, and let M denote the operator of pointwise multiplication by on l2(G). Following Connes, M𝕃 can be used as a “Dirac” operator for the reduced group C*-algebra (G). It deûnes a Lipschitz seminorm on (G), which defines a metric on the state space of (G). We show that for any length function satisfying a strong form of polynomial growth on a discrete group, the topology from this metric coincides with the weak-* topology (a key property for the definition of a “compact quantum metric space”). In particular, this holds for all word-length functions on ûnitely generated nilpotent-by-finite groups.


2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Blackadar

We prove a complete analog of the Borsuk Homotopy Extension Theorem for arbitrary semiprojective $C^*$-algebras. We also obtain some other results about semiprojective $C^*$-algebras: a partial lifting theorem with specified quotient, a lifting result for homomorphisms close to a liftable homomorphism, and that sufficiently close homomorphisms from a semiprojective $C^*$-algebra are homotopic.


2005 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kengo Matsumoto

A $\lambda$-graph system is a labeled Bratteli diagram with shift transformation. It is a generalization of finite labeled graphs and presents a subshift. In [16] the author has introduced a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{O}_{\mathfrak{L}}$ associated with a $\lambda$-graph system $\mathfrak{L}$ by using groupoid method as a generalization of the Cuntz-Krieger algebras. In this paper, we concretely construct the $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{O}_{\mathfrak{L}}$ by using both creation operators and projections on a sub Fock Hilbert space associated with $\mathfrak{L}$. We also introduce a new irreducible condition on $\mathfrak{L}$ under which the $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{O}_{\mathfrak{L}}$ becomes simple and purely infinite.


1992 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 185-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASAMICHI HAMANA

The main result asserts that given two monotone complete C*-algebras A and B, B is faithfully represented as a monotone closed C*-subalgebra of the monotone complete C*-algebra End A(X) consisting of all bounded module endomorphisms of some self-dual Hilbert A-module X if and only if there are sufficiently many normal completely positive maps of B into A. The key to the proof is the fact that each pre-Hilbert A-module can be completed uniquely to a self-dual Hilbert A-module.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (07) ◽  
pp. 1550049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Kirchberg ◽  
Mikael Rørdam

We investigate C*-algebras whose central sequence algebra has no characters, and we raise the question if such C*-algebras necessarily must absorb the Jiang–Su algebra (provided that they also are separable). We relate this question to a question of Dadarlat and Toms if the Jiang–Su algebra always embeds into the infinite tensor power of any unital C*-algebra without characters. We show that absence of characters of the central sequence algebra implies that the C*-algebra has the so-called strong Corona Factorization Property, and we use this result to exhibit simple nuclear separable unital C*-algebras whose central sequence algebra does admit a character. We show how stronger divisibility properties on the central sequence algebra imply stronger regularity properties of the underlying C*-algebra.


1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan P. Donsig ◽  
S. C. Power

AbstractAF C*-algebras contain natural AF masas which, here, we call standard diagonals. Standard diagonals are unique, in the sense that two standard diagonals in an AF C*-algebra are conjugate by an approximately inner automorphism. We show that this uniqueness fails for non-selfadjoint AF operator algebras. Precisely, we construct two standard diagonals in a particular non-selfadjoint AF operator algebra which are not conjugate by an approximately inner automorphism of the non-selfadjoint algebra.


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