Leavitt path algebras of separated graphs

Abstract

The construction of the Leavitt path algebra associated to a directed graph $E$ is extended to incorporate a family $C$ consisting of partitions of the sets of edges emanating from the vertices of $E$. The new algebras, $L_K(E,C)$, are analyzed in terms of their homology, ideal theory, and K-theory. These algebras are proved to be hereditary, and it is shown that any conical abelian monoid occurs as the monoid $\mon{L_K(E,C)}$ of isomorphism classes of finitely generated projective modules over one of these algebras. The lattice of trace ideals of $L_K(E,C)$ is determined by graph-theoretic data, namely as a lattice of certain pairs consisting of a subset of $E^0$ and a subset of $C$. Necessary conditions for $\mon{L_K(E,C)}$ to be a refinement monoid are developed, together with a construction that embeds $(E,C)$ in a separated graph $(E_{+},C^{+})$ such that $\mon{L_K(E_+,C^+)}$ has refinement.

56 pages. Final version, to appear in J. reine angew. Math. Minor changes

References in corpus (4)

• Adding tails to C*-correspondences
• The graded structure of Leavitt Path algebras
• C*-algebras of separated graphs
• The Corona Factorization Property and Refinement Monoids

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• The graded structure of Leavitt Path algebras
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