Graded K-theory, filtered K-theory and the classification of graph algebras

Abstract

We prove that an isomorphism of graded Grothendieck groups $K^{gr}_0$ of two Leavitt path algebras induces an isomorphism of their algebraic filtered $K$-theory and consequently an isomorphism of filtered $K$-theory of their associated graph $C^*$-algebras. As an application, we show that, since for a finite graph $E$ with no sinks, $K^{gr}_0(L(E))$ of the Leavitt path algebra $L(E)$ coincides with Krieger's dimension group of its adjacency matrix $A_E$, our result relates the shift equivalence of graphs to the filtered $K$-theory and consequently gives that two arbitrary shift equivalent matrices give stably isomorphic graph $C^*$-algebras. This result was only known for irreducible graphs.