English

Functoriality for groupoid and Fell bundle $C^*$-algebras

Operator Algebras 2023-11-03 v2

Abstract

We define a class of morphisms between \'etale groupoids and show that there is a functor from the category with these morphisms to the category of CC^*-algebras. We show that all homomorphisms between Cartan pairs of CC^*-algebras that preserve the Cartan structure arise from such morphisms between the underlying Weyl groupoids and twists, and attain an equivalence of categories between Cartan pairs with structure preserving homomorphisms and a their associated twists. We define analogous morphisms for Fell bundles over CC^*-algebras and show these functorially induce {}^*-homomorphisms between the Fell bundle CC^*-algebras. We also construct colimit groupoids and Fell bundles for inductive systems of such morphisms, and show that the functor to CC^*-algebras preserves these colimits.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2310.03126,
  title  = {Functoriality for groupoid and Fell bundle $C^*$-algebras},
  author = {Jonathan Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03126},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

44 pages, comments welcome, version 2 adds references and remarks regarding the relationship of the paper to the third reference and changes some technical assumptions to fix problems associated with Lemma 4.14 in the previous version (and its consequences)

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:40:51.500Z