Structural Chirality from Inverse Semigroups to Twisted Groupoid $C^*$-Algebras
Abstract
We develop a structural theory of chirality for inverse semigroups and show how it propagates canonically to \'{e}tale groupoids and twisted groupoid -algebras. Starting from inverse semigroup data equipped with admissible twist information, we construct a canonical twisted universal groupoid in the sense of Paterson and introduce a mirror correspondence encoding intrinsic asymmetry. Our main result identifies a structural obstruction to mirror self-duality at the level of twisted universal groupoids and shows that this obstruction descends to an obstruction for the associated reduced twisted groupoid -algebra to be isomorphic to its opposite. The framework is representation-independent, yet compatible with concrete germ groupoid models, and provides a unified bridge between partial symmetries, groupoid structures, and analytic invariants in noncommutative operator algebras.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.22665,
title = {Structural Chirality from Inverse Semigroups to Twisted Groupoid $C^*$-Algebras},
author = {Takao Inoué},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22665},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
26 pages. Structural chirality for inverse semigroups is developed via Paterson's universal groupoid and shown to induce an obstruction to mirror self-duality of twisted \'etale groupoid C-star-algebras