Let A be a separable unital C*-algebra and let π : A → L(H) be a faithful representation of A on a separable Hilbert space H such that π(A) ∩ K(H) = {0}. We show that OE , the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra associated to the Hilbert A-bimodule E = H⊗C A, is simple and purely infinite. If A is nuclear and belongs to the bootstrap class to which the UCT applies, then the same applies to OE . Hence by the ...

Let A be a (G, χ)-Hopf algebra with bijection antipode and let M be a G-graded A-bimodule. We prove that there exists an isomorphism HH∗gr(A,M) ∼= Ext ∗ A-gr(K, (M)), where K is viewed as the trivial graded A-module via the counit of A, M is the adjoint A-module associated to the graded A-bimodule M and HHgr denotes the G-graded Hochschild cohomology. As an application, we deduce that the cohom...

Based on the usual Fedosov construction of star products for a symplectic manifold M we give a simple geometric construction of a bimodule deformation for the sections of a vector bundle over M starting with a symplectic connection on M and a connection for E. In the case of a line bundle this gives a Morita equivalence bimodule where the relation between the characteristic classes of the Morit...

Finite quantum groupoids can be described in many equivalent ways [8, 11, 16]: In terms of the weak Hopf C -algebras of Böhm, Nill, and Szlachányi [2] or the finite-dimensional Hopf-von Neumann bimodules of Vallin [14], and in terms of finite-dimensional multiplicative partial isometries [4] or the finite-dimensional pseudo-multiplicative unitaries of Vallin [15]. In this note, we show that in ...

We consider C-algebras generated by a single Hilbert bimodule (Pimsner-Toeplitz algebras) and by a product systems of Hilbert bimodules. We give a new proof of a theorem of Pimsner, which states that any representation of the generating bimodule gives rise to a representation of the Pimsner-Toeplitz algebra. Our proof does not make use of the conditional expectation onto the subalgebra invarian...

We consider partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms on compact manifolds where the unstable and stable foliations stably carry some unique nontrivial homologies. We prove the following two results: if the center foliation is one dimensional, then the topological entropy is locally a constant; and if the center foliation is two dimensional, then the topological entropy is continuous on the set of a...

Let 1 ∈ A ⊂ B be an inclusion of C*-algebras of C*-index-finite type with depth 2. We try to compute topological stable rank of B (= tsr(B)) when A has topological stable rank one. We show that tsr(B) ≤ 2 when A is a tsr boundedly divisible algebra, in particular, A is a C*-minimal tensor product UHF ⊗ D with tsr(D) = 1. When G is a finite group and α is an action of G on UHF, we know that a cr...

We explore the topological defects of critical three-state Potts spin system on torus, Klein bottle and cylinder. A complete characterization is obtained by breaking down Fuchs-Runkel-Schweigert construction 2d rational CFT to lattice setting. This done applying strange correlator prescription recently tensor network descriptions string-net ground states in terms bimodule categories [Lootens, F...