Iterating the Pimsner construction

Abstract

For $A$ a $C^{\ast }$-algebra, $E_1,E_2$ two Hilbert bimodules over $A$, and a fixed isomorphism $\chi :E_1{\otimes }_A{E}_2\to E_2{\otimes }_A{E}_1$, we consider the problem of computing the $K$-theory of the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra ${\mathcal{O}}_{E_2{\otimes }_A{\mathcal{O}}_{E_1}}$ obtained by extending the scalars and by iterating the Pimsner construction. The motivating examples are a commutative diagram of Douglas and Howe for the Toeplitz operators on the quarter plane, and the Toeplitz extensions associated by Pimsner and Voiculescu to compute the $K$-theory of a crossed product. The applications are for Hilbert bimodules arising from rank two graphs and from commuting endomorphisms of abelian $C^{\ast }$-algebras.

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• Partial-isometric crossed products by semigroups of endomorphisms
• C*-algebras of commuting endomorphisms