Groupoids decomposition, propagation and operator \(K\)-theory (Q6062646)

Finite decomposition complexity of a locally compact groupoid with respect to a family of open subgroupoids generalizes finite dynamical complexity defined in [\textit{E. Guentner} et al., ``Dynamical complexity and controlled operator $K$-theory'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1609.02093}]. The main result of the paper under review claims that if \(\mathcal G\) is a locally compact groupoid with a Haar system, \(f:A\to B\) is a homomorphism of \(\mathcal G\)-algebras, and if there exists a subset \(\mathcal D\) of relatively clopen groupoids of \(\mathcal G\), closed under taking relatively clopen subgroupoids and such that (i) \((f_{\mathcal H})_*:K_*(A\rtimes_r\mathcal H)\to K_*(B\rtimes_r\mathcal H)\) is an isomorphism for any \(\mathcal H\in\mathcal D\); (ii) \(\mathcal G\) has finite decomposition complexity with respect to \(\mathcal D\), then \((f_{\mathcal G})_*:K_*(A\rtimes_r\mathcal G)\to K_*(B\rtimes_r\mathcal G)\) is an isomorphism. This is used to obtain some hereditary results for the Baum--Connes conjecture for groupoids.