@article{1450509, author = {Exel, Ruy, and Pitts, David Ryder,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450509}, title = {Characterizing groupoid C* -algebras of non-Hausdorff Étale groupoids /}, abstract = {This book develops tools to handle C*-algebras arising as completions of convolution algebras of sections of line bundles over possibly non-Hausdorff groupoids. A fundamental result of Gelfand describes commutative C*-algebras as continuous functions on locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Kumjian, and later Renault, showed that Gelfand's result can be extended to include non-commutative C*-algebras containing a commutative C*-algebra. In their setting, the C*-algebras in question may be described as the completion of convolution algebras of functions on twisted Hausdorff groupoids with respect to a certain norm. However, there are many natural settings in which the KumjianRenault theory does not apply, in part because the groupoids which arise are not Hausdorff. In fact, non-Hausdorff groupoids have been a source of surprising counterexamples and technical difficulties for decades. Including numerous illustrative examples, this book extends the KumjianRenault theory to a much broader class of C*-algebras. This work will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in the area of groupoid C*-algebras, the interface between dynamical systems and C*-algebras, and related fields.}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05513-3}, recid = {1450509}, pages = {1 online resource (viii, 158 pages).}, }