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$C^*$-algebras and Fell bundles associated to a textile system

Operator Algebras 2010-01-05 v1

Abstract

The notion of textile system was introduced by M. Nasu in order to analyze endomorphisms and automorphisms of topological Markov shifts. A textile system is given by two finite directed graphs GG and HH and two morphisms p,q:GHp,q:G\to H, with some extra properties. It turns out that a textile system determines a first quadrant two-dimensional shift of finite type, via a collection of Wang tiles, and conversely, any such shift is conjugate to a textile shift. In the case the morphisms pp and qq have the path lifting property, we prove that they induce groupoid morphisms π,ρ:Γ(G)Γ(H)\pi, \rho:\Gamma(G)\to \Gamma(H) between the corresponding \'etale groupoids of GG and HH. We define two families A(m,n){\mathcal A}(m,n) and Aˉ(m,n)\bar{\mathcal A}(m,n) of CC^*-algebras associated to a textile shift, and compute them in specific cases. These are graph algebras, associated to some one-dimensional shifts of finite type constructed from the textile shift. Under extra hypotheses, we also define two families of Fell bundles which encode the complexity of these two-dimensional shifts. We consider several classes of examples of textile shifts, including the full shift, the Golden Mean shift and shifts associated to rank two graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1001.0037,
  title  = {$C^*$-algebras and Fell bundles associated to a textile system},
  author = {Valentin Deaconu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.0037},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, 4 figures