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von Neuman algebras of strongly connected higher-rank graphs

Operator Algebras 2021-06-10 v2

Abstract

We investigate the factor types of the extremal KMS states for the preferred dynamics on the Toeplitz algebra and the Cuntz--Krieger algebra of a strongly connected finite kk-graph. For inverse temperatures above 1, all of the extremal KMS states are of type I_\infty. At inverse temperature 1, there is a dichotomy: if the kk-graph is a simple kk-dimensional cycle, we obtain a finite type I factor; otherwise we obtain a type III factor, whose Connes invariant we compute in terms of the spectral radii of the coordinate matrices and the degrees of cycles in the graph.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6481,
  title  = {von Neuman algebras of strongly connected higher-rank graphs},
  author = {Marcelo Laca and Nadia S. Larsen and Sergey Neshveyev and Aidan Sims and Samuel B. G. Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6481},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages; 1 picture prepared using TikZ. Version 2: this version to appear in Math. Ann