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Structural Chirality from Inverse Semigroups to Twisted Groupoid $C^*$-Algebras

Operator Algebras 2026-02-27 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We develop a structural theory of chirality for inverse semigroups and show how it propagates canonically to \'{e}tale groupoids and twisted groupoid CC^*-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 CC^*-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.

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@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

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