Generalised morphisms of k-graphs: k-morphs

Authors

Alex Kumjian, University of Nevada
David Pask, University of WollongongFollow
Aidan Sims, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

36411

Publication Details

Kumjian, A., Pask, D. & Sims, A. (2011). Generalised morphisms of k-graphs: k-morphs. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 363 (5), 2599-2626.

Abstract

In a number of recent papers, (k+l)-graphs have been constructed from k-graphs by inserting new edges in the last l dimensions. These constructions have been motivated by C*-algebraic considerations, so they have not been treated systematically at the level of higher-rank graphs themselves. Here we introduce k-morphs, which provide a systematic unifying framework for these various constructions. We think of k-morphs as the analogue, at the level of k-graphs, of C*-correspondences between C*-algebras. To make this analogy explicit, we introduce a category whose objects are k-graphs and whose morphisms are isomorphism classes of k-morphs. We show how to extend the assignment Λ → C*(Λ) to a functor from this category to the category whose objects are C*-algebras and whose morphisms are isomorphism classes of C*-correspondences.