Homotopy of Product Systems and K-Theory of Cuntz-Nica-Pimsner Algebras

Publication Name

Indiana University Mathematics Journal

Abstract

We introduce the notion of a homotopy of product systems, and show that the Cuntz-Nica-Pimsner algebras of homotopic product systems over Nk have isomorphic K-theory. As an application, we give a new proof that the K-theory of a 2-graph C*-algebra is independent of the factorisation rules, and we further show that the K-theory of any twisted 2-graph C*-algebra is independent of the twisting 2-cocycle. We also explore applications to K-theory for the C*-algebras of single-vertex k-graphs, reducing the question of whether the K-theory is independent of the factorisation rules to a question about path-connectedness of the space of solutions to an equation of Yang-Baxter type.

Open Access Status

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Volume

71

Issue

5

First Page

307

Last Page

338

Funding Number

DMS-1800749

Funding Sponsor

National Science Foundation

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1512/iumj.2022.71.8810