On structural connections between sandpile monoids and weighted Leavitt path algebras

Abstract

In this article, we establish the relations between a sandpile graph, its sandpile monoid and the weighted Leavitt path algebra associated with it. Namely, we show that the lattice of all idempotents of the sandpile monoid $\text{SP}(E)$ of a sandpile graph $E$ is both isomorphic to the lattice of all nonempty saturated hereditary subsets of $E$, the lattice of all order-ideals of $\text{SP}(E)$ and the lattice of all ideals of the weighted Leavitt path algebra $L_{K}(E, \omega)$ generated by vertices. Also, we describe the sandpile group of a sandpile graph $E$ via archimedean classes of $\text{SP}(E)$, and prove that all maximal subgroups of $\text{SP}(E)$ are exactly the Grothendieck groups of these archimedean classes. Finally, we give the structure of the Leavitt path algebra $L_{K}(E)$ of a sandpile graph $E$ via a finite chain of graded ideals being invariant under every graded automorphism of $L_{K}(E)$, and completely describe the structure of $L_{K}(E)$ such that the lattice of all idempotents of $\text{SP}(E)$ is a chain. Consequently, we completely describe the structure of the weighted Leavitt path algebra of a sandpile graph $E$ such that $\text{SP}(E)$ has exactly two idempotents.