Event № 671

(This is the first in a series of several talks) 

By a result of Glimm, we know that classifying representations of non-type-I $C^*$-algebras up to unitary equivalence is a difficult problem. Instead of this, one either restricts to a tractable subclass or weakens the invariant. In the theory of free semigroup algebras, initiated by Davidson and Pitts, classification of atomic and finitely correlated representations of Toeplitz-Cuntz algebras can achieved.

In this first talk, we introduce free semigroupoid algebras and discuss generalizations of the above results to representations of Toeplitz-Cuntz-Krieger algebras associated to a directed graph $G$. We prove a classification theorem for atomic representations and explain a classification theorem for finitely correlated representations due to Fuller. Time permitting, we will explain how the famous road coloring theorem, proved by Trahtman, gives us a large class of directed graphs for which the free semigroupoid algebra is in fact self-adjoint.