Characterization of Amalgamated Free Blocks of a Graph von Neumann Algebra |
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Authors: | Ilwoo Cho |
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Institution: | (1) Dep. of Math., Saint Ambrose Univ., 421 Ambrose Hall 518 W. Locust St., Davenport, Iowa, 52803, U. S. A. |
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Abstract: | We identify two noncommutative structures naturally associated with countable directed graphs. They are formulated in the
language of operators on Hilbert spaces. If G is a countable directed graphs with its vertex set V(G) and its edge set E(G), then we associate partial isometries to the edges in E(G) and projections to the vertices in V(G). We construct a corresponding von Neumann algebra
as a groupoid crossed product algebra
of an arbitrary fixed von Neumann algebra M and the graph groupoid
induced by G, via a graph-representation (or a groupoid action) α. Graph groupoids are well-determined (categorial) groupoids. The graph
groupoid
of G has its binary operation, called admissibility. This
has concrete local parts
, for all e ∈ E(G). We characterize
of
, induced by the local parts
of
, for all e ∈ E(G). We then characterize all amalgamated free blocks
of
. They are chracterized by well-known von Neumann algebras: the classical group crossed product algebras
, and certain subalgebras
(M) of operator-valued matricial algebra
. This shows that graph von Neumann algebras identify the key properties of graph groupoids.
Received: December 20, 2006. Revised: March 07, 2007. Accepted: March 13, 2007. |
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Keywords: | Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)" target="_blank">Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 47L99 |
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