A $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-Topological Index as a $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-State Index

Abstract

Within the setting of infinite dimensional self-dual $\mathrm{CAR}$ $C^{*}$-algebras describing fermions in the $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$-lattice, we depart from the well-known Araki-Evans $\sigma(P_{1},P_{2})$ $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-index for quasi-free fermion states and rewrite it in terms of states, rather than in terms of basis projections. Furthermore, we reformulate results which relate equivalences of Fock representations with the index parity into results which relate equivalences of GNS representations and the associated index parity.