Leavitt vs. $C^*$ pullbacks

Abstract

We show that certain pullbacks of $*$-algebras equivariant with respect to a compact group action remain pullbacks upon completing to $C^*$-algebras. This unifies a number of results in the literature on graph algebras, showing that pullbacks of Leavitt path algebras lift automatically to pullbacks of the corresponding graph $C^*$-algebras.