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Irreducible representations of groupoid $ C^*$-algebras

Author(s): Marius Ionescu; Dana P. Williams
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 1323-1332.
MSC (2000): Primary 46L55, 46L05; Secondary 22A22
Posted: December 4, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2465655
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Abstract: If $ G$ is a second countable locally compact Hausdorff groupoid with Haar system, we show that every representation induced from an irreducible representation of a stability group is irreducible.

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Marius Ionescu
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-4201
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3009
Email: ionescu@math.uconn.edu

Dana P. Williams
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-3551
Email: dana.p.williams@Dartmouth.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-08-09782-7
PII: S 0002-9939(08)09782-7
Received by editor(s): October 19, 2007
Posted: December 4, 2008
Communicated by: Marius Junge
Copyright of article: Copyright 2008, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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