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Groupoids and $C^*$-algebras for left cancellative small categories

Operator Algebras 2018-06-13 v2

Abstract

Categories of paths are a generalization of several kinds of oriented discrete data that have been used to construct CC^*-algebras. The techniques introduced to study these constructions apply almost verbatim to the more general situation of left cancellative small categories. We develop this theory and derive the structure of the CC^*-algebras in the most general situation. We analyze the regular representation, and the Wiener-Hopf algebra in the case of a subcategory of a groupoid.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07720,
  title  = {Groupoids and $C^*$-algebras for left cancellative small categories},
  author = {Jack Spielberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07720},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

30 pages. Various small corrections, and one substantive: the previous Cuntz-Krieger condition was incorrect. Definition 10.8 and Theorem 10.10 have been modified To appear in Indiana University Mathematics Journal

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