Nontraditional Γ-Cartan subalgebras: Rigidity and multiple models
This talk will focus on the tension between rigidity and multiple models for groupoid C*-algebras. If a C*-algebra A admits a Γ-Cartan subalgebra B, then Brown, Fuller, Pitts, and Reznikoff showed that there is a unique groupoid H, satisfying certain hypotheses, and a twist Σ over H so that A≅C∗r(H;Σ) and B≅C0(H(0)). However, we show in joint work with Jonathan Brown that many twisted groupoid C*-algebras C∗r(G,ω) admit Γ-Cartan subalgebras, even when G does not satisfy the hypotheses of BFPR. Thus, we have two groupoid models for these C*-algebras: C∗r(G,ω)≅C∗r(H;Σ). How are the two groupoids related? In this talk, we will describe the situations when C∗r(G,ω) admits a Γ-Cartan subalgebra; explain how to construct H from G in these cases; discuss which groupoids H can arise from this construction; and show how to reconstruct the groupoid G from such an H.