Characterizing Groupoid C*-Algebras of Non-Hausdorff Etale Groupoids - 2306 (1st Edition 2022)

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.