Filling families and strong pure infiniteness

We introduce filling families with matrix diagonalization as a refinement of the work by R{\o}rdam and the first named author. As an application we improve a result on local pure infiniteness and show that the minimal tensor product of a strongly purely infinite $C^*$-algebra and a exact $C^*$-algebra is again strongly purely infinite. Our results also yield a sufficient criterion for the strong pure infiniteness of crossed products $A\rtimes_\varphi \mathbb{N}$ by an endomorphism $\varphi$ of $A$ (cf. Theorem 7.6). Our work confirms that the special class of nuclear Cuntz-Pimsner algebras constructed by Harnisch and the first named author consist of strongly purely infinite $C^*$-algebras, and thus absorb $\mathcal{O}_\infty$ tensorially.