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The present paper deals with the question of representability of nets of C*-algebras whose underlying poset, indexing the net, is not upward directed. A particular class of nets, called C*-net bundles, is classified in terms of C*-dynamical systems having as group the fundamental group of the poset. Any net of C*-algebras has a canonical morphism into a C*-net bundle, the enveloping net bundle, which generalizes the notion of universal C*-algebra given by Fredenhagen to nonsimply connected posets. This allows a classification of nets; in particular, we call injective those nets such that the canonical morphism is faithful. Injectivity turns out to be equivalent to the existence of faithful representations. We further relate injectivity to a generalized Čech cocycle of the net, and this allows us to give examples of nets exhausting the above classification.
Using these results we have shown, in another paper, that any conformal net over S 1 is injective.
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Communicated by Y. Kawahigashi
Dedicated to John E. Roberts on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
Both the authors are supported by the EU network “Noncommutative Geometry” MRTN-CT-2006-0031962.
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Ruzzi, G., Vasselli, E. A New Light on Nets of C*-Algebras and Their Representations. Commun. Math. Phys. 312, 655–694 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-012-1490-3
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