We provide inverse semigroup and groupoid models for the Toeplitz and Cuntz-Krieger algebras of finitely aligned higher-rank graphs. Using these models, we prove a uniqueness theorem for the Cuntz-Krieger algebra.

In this paper we establish a characterization of abelian compact Hausdorff semigroups with unique idempotent and ideal retraction property. We also introduce a function algebra on a semitopological semigroup whose associated semigroup compactification is universal withrespect to these properties.

Let A be a finite dimensional Q-algebra and Γ ⊂ A a Z-order. We classify those A with the property that Z 6 →֒U(Γ). We call this last property the hyperbolic property. We apply this in the case that A = KS a semigroup algebra with K = Q or K = Q( √ −d). In particular, when KS is semi-simple and has no nilpotent elements, we prove that S is an inverse semigroup which is the disjoint union of Higm...

–a notion of amenability for topological semigroups is introduced. a topological semigroup s iscalled johnson amenable if for every banach s -bimodule e , every bounded crossed homomorphism froms to e* is principal. in this paper it is shown that a discrete semigroup s is johnson amenable if and only if1(s) is an amenable banach algebra. also, we show that if a topological semigroup s is johns...

For a unital foundation topological *-semigroup S whose representations separate points of S, we show that the spectrum of the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra B(S) is a compact semitopological semigroup. We also calculate B(S) for several examples of S.

Abstract We unify various étale groupoid reconstruction theorems such as the following: • Kumjian and Renault’s from a C*-algebra; Exel’s an ample inverse semigroup; Steinberg’s ring; Choi, Gardella Thiel’s Lp {L^{p}} -algebra. do this by working with certain bumpy semigroups S of functions ...

in this paper we establish a characterization of abelian compact hausdorff semigroups with unique idempotent and ideal retraction property. we also introduce a function algebra on a semitopological semigroup whose associated semigroup compactification is universal withrespect to these properties.

The results in this paper were motivated by the case when the inverse semigroup is the McAlister monoid MX on a set X. In [1] we considered some very large convolution algebras on MX , including some C ∗-algebras. Our main focus in [1] was deciding on the primitivity of the algebras, and one key tool was the use of generalized Rukolaine idempotents. To define these very large convolution algebr...

Let S be a locally compact foundation semigroup with identity and                          be its semigroup algebra. Let X be a weak*-closed left translation invariant subspace of    In this paper, we prove that  X  is invariantly  complemented in   if and  only if  the left ideal  of    has a bounded approximate identity. We also prove that a foundation semigroup with identity S is left amenab...