Groupoids, Inverse Semigroups, and their Operator Algebras - Softcover

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1. Introduction.- 2. Inverse Semigroups and Locally Compact Groupoids.- 2.1 Inverse semigroups.- 2.2 Locally compact and r-discrete groupoids.- 2.3 Lie groupoids.- 3. Groupoid C*-Algebras and Their Relation to Inverse Semigroup Covariance C*-Algebras.- 3.1 Representation theory for locally compact groupoids.- 3.2 Representation theory for groupoids that are r-discrete, and their inverse semigroups of open G-sets.- 3.3 Groupoid and covariance C*-algebras.- 4. The Groupoid C*-Algebras of Inverse Semigroups.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Examples of inverse semigroups and their associated groupoids.- 4.3 The universal groupoid of an inverse semigroup.- 4.4 Inverse semigroup universal and reduced C*-algebras as groupoid C*-algebras.- 4.5 Amenability of the von Neumann algebra of an inverse semigroup.- Appendix A. Amenability for Inverse Semigroups.- Appendix B. Groupoid Amenability and Locally Compact Groups.- Appendix C. The Measurability of Fg.- Appendix D. Ind ? as an Induced Representation.- Appendix E. Guichardet's Disintegration Theorem.- Appendix F. Some Differential Topology.- Index of Terms.- Index of Symbols.

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