Products, crossed products, and Zappa--Szép products for $k$-graphs

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Auteurs principaux: Abell-Ball, Adlin, Gillaspy, Elizabeth, Glidden-Handgis, George, Lippert, S. Joseph
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author Abell-Ball, Adlin
Gillaspy, Elizabeth
Glidden-Handgis, George
Lippert, S. Joseph
author_facet Abell-Ball, Adlin
Gillaspy, Elizabeth
Glidden-Handgis, George
Lippert, S. Joseph
contents We use the lens of Zappa--Szép decomposition to examine the relationship between directed graph products and $k$-graph products. There are many examples of higher-rank graphs, or $k$-graphs, whose underlying directed graph may be factored as a product, but the $k$-graph itself is not a product. In such examples, we establish that the Zappa--Szép structure of the $k$-graph gives rise to "actions'' of the underlying directed factors on each other. Although these "actions'' are in general poorly behaved, if one of them is trivial (or trivial up to isomorphism), we obtain a crossed-product-like structure on the $k$-graph. We provide examples where this crossed-product structure is visible in the associated $C^*$-algebra, and we characterize those $k$-graphs whose Zappa--Szép induced actions are trivial up to isomorphism.
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spellingShingle Products, crossed products, and Zappa--Szép products for $k$-graphs
Abell-Ball, Adlin
Gillaspy, Elizabeth
Glidden-Handgis, George
Lippert, S. Joseph
Operator Algebras
We use the lens of Zappa--Szép decomposition to examine the relationship between directed graph products and $k$-graph products. There are many examples of higher-rank graphs, or $k$-graphs, whose underlying directed graph may be factored as a product, but the $k$-graph itself is not a product. In such examples, we establish that the Zappa--Szép structure of the $k$-graph gives rise to "actions'' of the underlying directed factors on each other. Although these "actions'' are in general poorly behaved, if one of them is trivial (or trivial up to isomorphism), we obtain a crossed-product-like structure on the $k$-graph. We provide examples where this crossed-product structure is visible in the associated $C^*$-algebra, and we characterize those $k$-graphs whose Zappa--Szép induced actions are trivial up to isomorphism.
title Products, crossed products, and Zappa--Szép products for $k$-graphs
topic Operator Algebras
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08630