Quantum isometry groups of log-Laplacians on Cuntz--Krieger algebras

We compute the quantum isometry groups of Cuntz–Krieger algebras endowed with the spectral triples coming from the Ahlfors regular structure of the underlying topological Markov chain. This allows us to exhibit a new family of compact quantum groups, mixing features from quantum automorphism groups of graphs and easy quantum groups. Contrary to the classical isometry groups, whose actions on the Cuntz–Krieger algebras are never ergodic, the quantum isometry group acts ergodically in the case of the Cuntz algebra. This also leads to the construction of a (genuinely quantum) ergodic action of a compact matrix quantum group on the Cantor space.