On nuclearity of \(C^*\)-algebras of Fell bundles over étale groupoids (Q2509467)

The author proves that the reduced \(C^*\)-algebra of a Fell bundle over an étale amenable groupoid, whose fibers over the unit space are nuclear, is again nuclear. To prove this, for a Fell bundle \(E\) over a groupoid \(G\) and a \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\), the author introduces a tensor product \(E\otimes A\), and shows that it has a unique Fell bundle structure whose reduced \(C^*\)-algebra is canonically isomorphic to \(C_r^*(E)\otimes A\). One application is that for a locally compact étale Hausdorff groupoid \(G\), amenability of \(G\) is equivalent to nuclearity of \(C_r^*(E)\) for some (hence all) Fell bundles with one-dimensional fibres over \(G\).