Wold Decomposition and C*-envelopes of Self-Similar Semigroup Actions on Graphs

Abstract: We study the Wold decomposition for representations of a self-similar semigroup $P$ action on a directed graph $E$. We then apply this decomposition to the case where $P=\mathbb{N}$ to study the C*-envelope of the associated universal non-selfadjoint operator algebra $\mathcal{A}{\mathbb{N}, E}$ by carefully constructing explicit non-trivial dilations for non-boundary representations. In particular, it is shown that the C*-envelope of $\mathcal{A}{\mathbb{N}, E}$ coincides with the self-similar C*-algebra $\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Z}, E}$.