Operator algebras and Poisson manifolds associated to groupoids (Q5953669)

One can canonically construct a von Neumann algebra \(W^*(G)\) in standard form from a measured groupoid \(G\). To a Lie groupoid \(G\) one can canonically associate a \(C^*\)-algebra \(C^*(G)\) and a Poisson manifold \(A^*(G)\). In the paper under review the following six categories are constructed: - the category \({\mathbf {MG}}\) of measured groupoids and functors; - the category \({\mathbf {LG}}\) of Lie groupoids and principal bibundles; - the category \({\mathbf {LGc}}\) of s-connected and s-simply connected Lie groupoids and left principal bibundles; - the category \({\mathbf W}^*\) of von Neumann algebras and correspondences, composed by the relative tensor product; - the category \({\mathbf C}^*\) of \(C^*\)-algebras and Hilbert bimodules, composed by Rieffel's interior tensor product; - the category \textbf{Poisson} of Poisson manifolds and dual pairs. The maps \(G\mapsto W^*(G)\), \(G\mapsto C^*(G)\), and \(G\mapsto A^*(G)\) are shown to define functors from \({\mathbf {MG}}\) to \({\mathbf W}^*\), from \({\mathbf {LG}}\) to \({\mathbf C}^*\), and from \({\mathbf {LGc}}\) to \textbf{Poisson}, respectively. Since the appropriate notion of Morita equivalence is isomorphism in the appropriate category, one reproves in this abstract setting the result that Morita equivalence is being preserved by these three maps.