Perron-Frobenius operators and representations of the Cuntz-Krieger algebras for infinite matrices

In this paper we extend the work of Kawamura, see [K. Kawamura, The Perron-Frobenius operators, invariant measures anti representations of the Cuntz-Krieger algebras, J. Math. Phys. 46 (2005)], for Cuntz-Krieger algebras O-A for infinite matrices A. We generalize the definition of branching systems, prove their existence for any given matrix A and show how they induce some very concrete representations of O-A. We use these representations to describe the Perron-Frobenius operator, associated to a nonsingular transformation, as an infinite sum and under some hypothesis we find a matrix representation for the operator. We finish the paper with a few examples. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.