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Twisted actions and regular Fell bundles over inverse semigroups

Operator Algebras 2014-02-26 v1

Abstract

We introduce a new notion of twisted actions of inverse semigroups and show that they correspond bijectively to certain regular Fell bundles over inverse semigroups, yielding in this way a structure classification of such bundles. These include as special cases all the stable Fell bundles. Our definition of twisted actions properly generalizes a previous one introduced by Sieben and corresponds to Busby-Smith twisted actions in the group case. As an application we describe twisted etale groupoid C*-algebras in terms of crossed products by twisted actions of inverse semigroups and show that Sieben's twisted actions essentially correspond to twisted etale groupoids with topologically trivial twists.

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@article{arxiv.1003.0613,
  title  = {Twisted actions and regular Fell bundles over inverse semigroups},
  author = {Alcides Buss and Ruy Exel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.0613},
  year   = {2014}
}

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35 pages

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