Obstructions to lifting cocycles on groupoids and the associated C^*-algebras

Abstract: Given a short exact sequence of locally compact abelian groups

0 o A o B o C o 0

and a continuous

C

-valued

1

-cocycle

p h i

on a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid

G a m m a

we construct a twist of

G a m m a

by

A

that is trivial if and only if

p h i

lifts. The cocycle determines a strongly continuous action of

w i d e h a t C

into

o p e r a t o r n a m e A u t C^{*} (G a m m a)

and we prove that the

C^{*}

-algebra of the twist is isomorphic to the induced algebra of this action if

G a m m a

is amenable. We apply our results to a groupoid determined by a locally finite cover of a space

X

and a cocycle provided by a v{C}ech 1-cocycle with coefficients in the sheaf of germs of continuous

m a t h b b T

-valued functions. We prove that the

C^{*}

-algebra of the resulting twist is continuous trace and we compute its Dixmier-Douady invariant.

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