On groupoids beyond partial actions, inner amenability, and models for Kirchberg algebras

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Main Authors: Buss, Alcides, Kranz, Julian
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Kranz, Julian
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Kranz, Julian
contents We construct the first explicit examples of locally compact Hausdorff étale groupoids that are not inner amenable and that do not arise as transformation groupoids associated to partial actions of discrete groups. This answers questions of Anantharaman--Delaroche and Exel. Our examples include all Higson--Lafforgue--Skandalis groupoids associated to non-amenable residually finite groups, as well as their principal variants constructed by Alekseev--Finn--Sell. These can be chosen to be second countable, ample, and in the latter case even principal. We also show that large classes of Deaconu--Renault groupoids with connected unit space do not arise from partial actions of discrete groups, including cases whose $C^*$-algebras are Kirchberg algebras in the UCT class. We contrast this with the totally disconnected case by giving ample transformation groupoid models for all unital Kirchberg algebras in the UCT class as well as many higher rank graph algebras. Finally, we characterize precisely when coarse groupoids arise from partial actions of discrete groups in terms of coarse embeddings into groups.
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spellingShingle On groupoids beyond partial actions, inner amenability, and models for Kirchberg algebras
Buss, Alcides
Kranz, Julian
Operator Algebras
Dynamical Systems
Primary: 22A22, 43A07, 46L35. Secondary: 37B05, 46L06, 47L15
We construct the first explicit examples of locally compact Hausdorff étale groupoids that are not inner amenable and that do not arise as transformation groupoids associated to partial actions of discrete groups. This answers questions of Anantharaman--Delaroche and Exel. Our examples include all Higson--Lafforgue--Skandalis groupoids associated to non-amenable residually finite groups, as well as their principal variants constructed by Alekseev--Finn--Sell. These can be chosen to be second countable, ample, and in the latter case even principal. We also show that large classes of Deaconu--Renault groupoids with connected unit space do not arise from partial actions of discrete groups, including cases whose $C^*$-algebras are Kirchberg algebras in the UCT class. We contrast this with the totally disconnected case by giving ample transformation groupoid models for all unital Kirchberg algebras in the UCT class as well as many higher rank graph algebras. Finally, we characterize precisely when coarse groupoids arise from partial actions of discrete groups in terms of coarse embeddings into groups.
title On groupoids beyond partial actions, inner amenability, and models for Kirchberg algebras
topic Operator Algebras
Dynamical Systems
Primary: 22A22, 43A07, 46L35. Secondary: 37B05, 46L06, 47L15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17921