Pushouts of extensions of groupoids by bundles of abelian groups

Abstract: We analyse extensions

S i g m a

of groupoids

G

by bundles

A

of abelian groups. We describe a pushout construction for such extensions, and use it to describe the extension group of a given groupoid

G

by a given bundle

A

. There is a natural action of

S i g m a

on the dual of

A

, yielding a corresponding transformation groupoid. The pushout of this transformation groupoid by the natural map from the fibre product of

A

with its dual to the Cartesian product of the dual with the circle is a twist over the transformation groupoid resulting from the action of

G

on the dual of

A

. We prove that the full

C^{*}

-algebra of this twist is isomorphic to the full

C^{*}

-algebra of

S i g m a

, and that this isomorphism descends to an isomorphism of reduced algebras. We give a number of examples and applications.

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