Realizing ultragraph Leavitt path algebras as Steinberg algebras

In this article, we realize the finite range ultragraph Leavitt path algebras as Steinberg algebras. This realization allows us to use the groupoid approach to obtain structural results about these algebras. Using the skew product of groupoids, we show that ultragraph Leavitt path algebras are graded von Neumann regular rings. We characterize strongly graded ultragraph Leavitt path algebras and show that every ultragraph Leavitt path algebra is semiprimitive. Moreover, we characterize irreducible representations of ultragraph Leavitt path algebras. We also show that ultragraph Leavitt path algebras can be realized as Cuntz-Pimsner rings.     

The graded structure of Leavitt path algebras

A Leavitt path algebra associates to a directed graph a ?-graded algebra and in its simplest form it recovers the Leavitt algebra L(1, k). In this note, we first study this ?-grading and characterize the (?-graded) structure of Leavitt path algebras, associated to finite acyclic graphs, C _n -comet, multi-headed graphs and a mixture of these graphs (i.e., polycephaly graphs). The last two types are examples of graphs whose Leavitt path algebras are strongly graded. We give a criterion when a Leavitt path algebra is strongly graded and in particular characterize unital Leavitt path algebras which are strongly graded completely, along the way obtaining classes of algebras which are group rings or crossed-products. In an attempt to generalize the grading, we introduce weighted Leavitt path algebras associated to directed weighted graphs which have natural ⊕?-grading and in their simplest form recover the Leavitt algebras L(n, k). We then show that the basic properties of Leavitt path algebras can be naturally carried over to weighted Leavitt path algebras.     

Bases of Leavitt path algebras with only strongly regular elements

Recent articles consider invertible and locally invertible algebras (respectively, those having a basis consisting solely of invertible or solely of strongly regular elements). Previous contributions to the subject include the study of when Leavitt path algebras are invertible. This article investigates the local invertibility property in Leavitt path algebras. A complete classification of strongly regular monomials in Leavitt path algebras is given. Additionally, it is show that all directly finite and (von Neumann) regular Leavitt path algebras are locally invertible. It is also shown that a Leavitt path algebra has a basis consisting solely of strongly regular monomials if and only if it is commutative.     

Applications of Normal Forms for Weighted Leavitt Path Algebras: Simple Rings and Domains

Weighted Leavitt path algebras (wLpas) are a generalisation of Leavitt path algebras (with graphs of weight 1) and cover the algebras L _K (n, n + k) constructed by Leavitt. Using Bergman’s diamond lemma, we give normal forms for elements of a weighted Leavitt path algebra. This allows us to produce a basis for a wLpa. Using the normal form we classify the wLpas which are domains, simple and graded simple rings. For a large class of weighted Leavitt path algebras we establish a local valuation and as a consequence we prove that these algebras are prime, semiprimitive and nonsingular but contrary to Leavitt path algebras, they are not graded von Neumann regular.     

The structure of Leavitt path algebras and the Invariant Basis Number property

In this paper, we provide the structure of the Leavitt path algebra of a finite graph via some step-by-step process of source eliminations, and restate Kanuni and Özaydin's nice criterion for Leavitt path algebras of finite graphs having Invariant Basis Number via matrix-theoretic language. Consequently, we give a matrix-theoretic criterion for the Leavitt path algebra of a finite graph having Invariant Basis Number in terms of a sequence of source eliminations. Using these results, we show certain classes of finite graphs for which Leavitt path algebras have Invariant Basis Number, as well as investigate the Invariant Basis Number property of Leavitt path algebras of certain Cayley graphs of finite groups.     

Leavitt Path Algebras as Partial Skew Group Rings

We realize Leavitt path algebras as partial skew group rings and give new proofs, based on partial skew group ring theory of the Cuntz–Krieger uniqueness theorem and simplicity criteria for Leavitt path algebras.     

Weakly Regular and Self-Injective Leavitt Path Algebras Over Arbitrary Graphs

We characterize the Leavitt path algebras over arbitrary graphs which are weakly regular rings as well as those which are self-injective. In order to reach our goals we extend and prove several results on projective, injective and flat modules over Leavitt path algebras and, more generally, over (not necessarily unital) rings with local units.     

Baer and Baer *-ring characterizations of Leavitt path algebras

We characterize Leavitt path algebras which are Rickart, Baer, and Baer ?-rings in terms of the properties of the underlying graph. In order to treat non-unital Leavitt path algebras as well, we generalize these annihilator-related properties to locally unital rings and provide a more general characterizations of Leavitt path algebras which are locally Rickart, locally Baer, and locally Baer ?-rings. Leavitt path algebras are also graded rings and we formulate the graded versions of these annihilator-related properties and characterize Leavitt path algebras having those properties as well.Our characterizations provide a quick way to generate a wide variety of examples of rings. For example, creating a Baer and not a Baer ?-ring, a Rickart ?-ring which is not Baer, or a Baer and not a Rickart ?-ring, is straightforward using the graph-theoretic properties from our results. In addition, our characterizations showcase more properties which distinguish behavior of Leavitt path algebras from their $C^{?}$-algebra counterparts. For example, while a graph $C^{?}$-algebra is Baer (and a Baer ?-ring) if and only if the underlying graph is finite and acyclic, a Leavitt path algebra is Baer if and only if the graph is finite and no cycle has an exit, and it is a Baer ?-ring if and only if the graph is a finite disjoint union of graphs which are finite and acyclic or loops.     

Simpleness of Leavitt path algebras with coefficients in a commutative semiring

In this paper, we study ideal- and congruence-simpleness for the Leavitt path algebras of directed graphs with coefficients in a commutative semiring S, establishing some fundamental properties of those algebras. We provide a complete characterization of ideal-simple Leavitt path algebras with coefficients in a commutative semiring S, extending the well-known characterizations when S is a field or a commutative ring. We also present a complete characterization of congruence-simple Leavitt path algebras over row-finite graphs with coefficients in a commutative semiring S.     

Stable rank of Leavitt path algebras

We characterize the values of the stable rank for Leavitt path algebras by giving concrete criteria in terms of properties of the underlying graph.

     

Finite-dimensional Leavitt path algebras

We classify the directed graphs E for which the Leavitt path algebra L(E) is finite dimensional. In our main results we provide two distinct classes of connected graphs from which, modulo the one-dimensional ideals, all finite-dimensional Leavitt path algebras arise.     

Simple flat Leavitt path algebras are von Neumann regular

For a unital ring, it is an open question whether flatness of simple modules implies all modules are flat and thus the ring is von Neumann regular. The question was raised by Ramamurthi over 40?years ago who called such rings SF-rings (i.e. simple modules are flat). In this note we show that an SF Steinberg algebra of an ample Hausdorff groupoid, graded by an ordered group, has an aperiodic unit space. For graph groupoids, this implies that the graphs are acyclic. Combining with the Abrams–Rangaswamy Theorem, it follows that SF Leavitt path algebras are regular, answering Ramamurthi’s question in positive for the class of Leavitt path algebras.     

*-Regular Leavitt path algebras of arbitrary graphs

If K is a field with involution and E an arbitrary graph, the involution from K naturally induces an involution of the Leavitt path algebra L _K (E). We show that the involution on L _K (E) is proper if the involution on K is positive-definite, even in the case when the graph E is not necessarily finite or row-finite. It has been shown that the Leavitt path algebra L _K (E) is regular if and only if E is acyclic. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for L _K (E) to be *-regular (i.e., regular with proper involution). This characterization of *-regularity of a Leavitt path algebra is given in terms of an algebraic property of K, not just a graph-theoretic property of E. This differs from the known characterizations of various other algebraic properties of a Leavitt path algebra in terms of graphtheoretic properties of E alone. As a corollary, we show that Handelman’s conjecture (stating that every *-regular ring is unit-regular) holds for Leavitt path algebras. Moreover, its generalized version for rings with local units also continues to hold for Leavitt path algebras over arbitrary graphs.     

Rings of quotients of some infinite dimensional path algebras

We compute the maximal symmetric ring of quotients of infinite dimensional path algebras that can be approximated by finite dimensional path algebras.     

Prime étale groupoid algebras with applications to inverse semigroup and Leavitt path algebras

In this paper we give some sufficient and some necessary conditions for an étale groupoid algebra to be a prime ring. As an application we recover the known primeness results for inverse semigroup algebras and Leavitt path algebras. It turns out that primeness of the algebra is connected with the dynamical property of topological transitivity of the groupoid. We obtain analogous results for semiprimeness.     

Leavitt path algebras with coefficients in a commutative ring

Given a directed graph E we describe a method for constructing a Leavitt path algebra L_R(E) whose coefficients are in a commutative unital ring R. We prove versions of the Graded Uniqueness Theorem and Cuntz-Krieger Uniqueness Theorem for these Leavitt path algebras, giving proofs that both generalize and simplify the classical results for Leavitt path algebras over fields. We also analyze the ideal structure of L_R(E), and we prove that if K is a field, then L_K(E)≅K⊗_ZL_Z(E).     

Diagonal-preserving ring ⁎-isomorphisms of Leavitt path algebras

The graph groupoids of directed graphs E and F are topologically isomorphic if and only if there is a diagonal-preserving ring ?-isomorphism between the Leavitt path algebras of E and F.