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Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids Ruy Exel

Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids By Ruy Exel

Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids by Ruy Exel


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Summary

This book develops tools to handle C*-algebras arising as completions of convolution algebras of sections of line bundles over possibly non-Hausdorff groupoids.

Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids Summary

Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids by Ruy Exel

This book develops tools to handle C*-algebras arising as completions of convolution algebras of sections of line bundles over possibly non-Hausdorff groupoids. A fundamental result of Gelfand describes commutative C*-algebras as continuous functions on locally compact Hausdorff spaces.

Kumjian, and later Renault, showed that Gelfand's result can be extended to include non-commutative C*-algebras containing a commutative C*-algebra. In their setting, the C*-algebras in question may be described as the completion of convolution algebras of functions on twisted Hausdorff groupoids with respect to a certain norm. However, there are many natural settings in which the Kumjian-Renault theory does not apply, in part because the groupoids which arise are not Hausdorff. In fact, non-Hausdorff groupoids have been a source of surprising counterexamples and technical difficulties for decades. Including numerous illustrative examples, this book extends the Kumjian-Renault theory to a much broader class of C*-algebras.

This work will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the area of groupoid C*-algebras, the interface between dynamical systems and C*-algebras, and related fields.


Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids Reviews

This is a nicely written monograph devoted to the new and important notion of non Hausdorff groupoids and their C*-algebras, and could be beneficial for researchers in operator algebras and mathematical physics. (Massoud Amini, zbMATH 1511.46002, 2023)

About Ruy Exel

Ruy Exel is a professor of Mathematics at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Brazil. He has published extensively in the subject of operator algebras with emphasis on its interactions with dynamical systems and mathematical physics. A pioneer in the area of partial actions of groups on C*-algebras, he has recently published the book Partial Dynamical Systems, Fell Bundles and Applications. He was an invited speaker in the 2018 ICM in Rio.
David R. Pitts
is a professor of mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published work on various aspects of operator algebras, including: commutative subspace lattice algebras, free semigroup algebras, and Cartan subalgebras of von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras.

Table of Contents

- 1. Introduction. - 2. Inclusions. - 3. Groupoids. - 4. Examples and Open Questions. - 5. Appendix.

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NPB9783031055126
9783031055126
3031055128
Characterizing Groupoid C*-algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids by Ruy Exel
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Springer International Publishing AG
2022-10-20
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