Semi-étale groupoids and applications (Q983142)

The author associates a \(C^*\)-algebra to a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid with the property that the range map is locally injective. The construction generalizes J. Renault's reduced groupoid \(C^*\)-algebra of an etale groupoid and has the advantage that it works for the groupoid arising from a locally injective dynamical system by the method introduced in increasing generality by Renault, Deaconu and Anantharaman-Delaroche. He studies the \(C^*\)-algebras of such groupoids, gives necessary and sufficient conditions for simplicity, and shows that many of them contain a Cartan subalgebra as defined by Renault. In particular, this holds when the dynamical system is a shift space, in which case the \(C^*\)-algebra coincides with the one introduced by Matsumoto and Carlsen [cf.\ \textit{T.\,M.\thinspace Carlsen} and \textit{K.\,Matsumoto}, Math.\ Scand.\ 95, No.\,1, 145--160 (2004; Zbl 1067.46045)].