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We investigate the homology of ample Hausdorff groupoids. We establish that a number of notions of equivalence of groupoids appearing in the literature coincide for ample Hausdorff groupoids, and deduce that they all preserve groupoid homology. We compute the homology of a Deaconu{Renault groupoid associated to k pairwisecommuting local homeomorphisms of a zero-dimensional space, and show that Matuis HK conjecture holds for such a groupoid when k is one or two. We specialise to k-graph groupoids, and show that their homology can be computed in terms of the adjacency matrices, using a chain complex developed by Evans. We show that Matuis HK conjecture holds for the groupoids of single vertex k-graphs which satisfy a mild joint-coprimality condition. We also prove that there is a natural homomorphism from the categorical homology of a k-graph to the homology of its groupoid.
We establish exact sequences in $KK$-theory for graded relative Cuntz-Pimsner algebras associated to nondegenerate $C^*$-correspondences. We use this to calculate the graded $K$-theory and $K$-homology of relative Cuntz-Krieger algebras of directed graphs for gradings induced by ${0,1}$-valued labellings of their edge sets.
Let $A$ and $C$ be two unital simple C*-algebas with tracial rank zero. Suppose that $C$ is amenable and satisfies the Universal Coefficient Theorem. Denote by ${{KK}}_e(C,A)^{++}$ the set of those $kappa$ for which $kappa(K_0(C)_+setminus{0})subset K_0(A)_+setminus{0}$ and $kappa([1_C])=[1_A]$. Suppose that $kappain {KK}_e(C,A)^{++}.$ We show that there is a unital monomorphism $phi: Cto A$ such that $[phi]=kappa.$ Suppose that $C$ is a unital AH-algebra and $lambda: mathrm{T}(A)to mathrm{T}_{mathtt{f}}(C)$ is a continuous affine map for which $tau(kappa([p]))=lambda(tau)(p)$ for all projections $p$ in all matrix algebras of $C$ and any $tauin mathrm{T}(A),$ where $mathrm{T}(A)$ is the simplex of tracial states of $A$ and $mathrm{T}_{mathtt{f}}(C)$ is the convex set of faithful tracial states of $C.$ We prove that there is a unital monomorphism $phi: Cto A$ such that $phi$ induces both $kappa$ and $lambda.$ Suppose that $h: Cto A$ is a unital monomorphism and $gamma in mathrm{Hom}(Kone(C), aff(A)).$ We show that there exists a unital monomorphism $phi: Cto A$ such that $[phi]=[h]$ in ${KK}(C,A),$ $taucirc phi=taucirc h$ for all tracial states $tau$ and the associated rotation map can be given by $gamma.$ Applications to classification of simple C*-algebras are also given.
We introduce a new method for studying the Baum-Connes conjecture, which we call the direct splitting method. The method can simplify and clarify proofs of some of the known cases of the conjecture. In a separate paper, with J. Brodzki, E. Guentner and N. Higson, a similar idea will be used to give a finite-dimensional proof of the Baum-Connes conjecture for groups which act properly and co-compactly on a finite-dimensional CAT(0)-cubical space.
Let $C$ be a unital AH-algebra and $A$ be a unital simple C*-algebra with tracial rank zero. It has been shown that two unital monomorphisms $phi, psi: Cto A$ are approximately unitarily equivalent if and only if $$ [phi]=[psi] {rm in} KL(C,A) and taucirc phi=taucirc psi tforal tauin T(A), $$ where $T(A)$ is the tracial state space of $A.$ In this paper we prove the following: Given $kappain KL(C,A)$ with $kappa(K_0(C)_+setminus {0})subset K_0(A)_+setminus {0}$ and with $kappa([1_C])=[1_A]$ and a continuous affine map $lambda: T(A)to T_{mathtt{f}}(C)$ which is compatible with $kappa,$ where $T_{mathtt{f}}(C)$ is the convex set of all faithful tracial states, there exists a unital monomorphism $phi: Cto A$ such that $$ [phi]=kappaandeqn taucirc phi(c)=lambda(tau)(c) $$ for all $cin C_{s.a.}$ and $tauin T(A).$ Denote by ${rm Mon}_{au}^e(C,A)$ the set of approximate unitary equivalence classes of unital monomorphisms. We provide a bijective map $$ Lambda: {rm Mon}_{au}^e (C,A)to KLT(C,A)^{++}, $$ where $KLT(C,A)^{++}$ is the set of compatible pairs of elements in $KL(C,A)^{++}$ and continuous affine maps from $T(A)$ to $T_{mathtt{f}}(C).$ Moreover, we realized that there are compact metric spaces $X$, unital simple AF-algebras $A$ and $kappain KL(C(X), A)$ with $kappa(K_0(C(X))_+setminus{0})subset K_0(A)_+setminus {0}$ for which there is no hm $h: C(X)to A$ so that $[h]=kappa.$
We prove that a minimal second countable ample groupoid has dynamical comparison if and only if its type semigroup is almost unperforated. Moreover, we investigate to what extent a not necessarily minimal almost finite groupoid has an almost unperforated type semigroup. Finally, we build a bridge between coarse geometry and topological dynamics by characterizing almost finiteness of the coarse groupoid in terms of a new coarsely invariant property for metric spaces, which might be of independent interest in coarse geometry. As a consequence, we are able to construct new examples of almost finite principal groupoids lacking other desirable properties, such as amenability or even a-T-menability. This behaviour is in stark contrast to the case of principal transformation groupoids associated to group actions.