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Simplicity criteria for etale groupoid $C^*$-algebras

Operator Algebras 2018-12-31 v2

Abstract

We develop a framework suitable for obtaining simplicity criteria for reduced CC^*-algebras of Hausdorff etale groupoids. This is based on the study of certain non-degenerate CC^*-subalgebras (in the case of groupoids, the CC^*-algebra of the interior isotropy bundle), for which one can control (non-unique) state extensions to the ambient C*-algebra. As an application, we give simplicity criteria for reduced crossed products of abelian CC^*-algebras by discrete groups.

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@article{arxiv.1805.11173,
  title  = {Simplicity criteria for etale groupoid $C^*$-algebras},
  author = {Danny Crytser and Gabriel Nagy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.11173},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

37 pages, revised version of arXiv:1805.11173 (minor typo fixes and changes in title, exposition and terminology)