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Classifying Leavitt path algebras up to involution preserving homotopy

Rings and Algebras 2021-07-13 v4 K-Theory and Homology Operator Algebras

Abstract

We prove that the Bowen-Franks group classifies the Leavitt path algebras of purely infinite simple finite graphs over a regular supercoherent commutative ring with involution where 22 is invertible, equipped with their standard involutions, up to matricial stabilization and involution preserving homotopy equivalence. We also consider a twisting of the standard involution on Leavitt path algebras and obtain partial results in the same direction for purely infinite simple graphs. Our tools are KK-theoretic, and we prove several results about (Hermitian, bivariant) KK-theory of Leavitt path algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05777,
  title  = {Classifying Leavitt path algebras up to involution preserving homotopy},
  author = {Guillermo Cortiñas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05777},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

39 pages, no figures. Second version is fully re-written. Third version clarifies the relevance of classic results of Joachim Cuntz to the present work. Fourth version corrects a typo and adds reference to Cuntz' homotopy classification of Cuntz-Krieger algebras [20]

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