A uniqueness theorem for the Nica-Toeplitz algebra of a compactly aligned product system

Abstract: Fowler introduced the notion of a product system: a collection of Hilbert bimodules $\mathbf{X}=\left{\mathbf{X}p:p\in P\right}$ indexed by a semigroup $P$, endowed with a multiplication implementing isomorphisms $\mathbf{X}_p\otimes_A \mathbf{X}_q\cong \mathbf{X}{pq}$. When $P$ is quasi-lattice ordered, Fowler showed how to associate a $C^*$-algebra $\mathcal{NT}_\mathbf{X}$ to $\mathbf{X}$, generated by a universal representation satisfying some covariance condition. In this article we prove a uniqueness theorem for these so called Nica-Toeplitz algebras.