Subgroups of the group of homeomorphisms of the Cantor space and a duality between a class of inverse minoids and a class of Hausdorff etale groupoids

摘要

Under non-commutative Stone duality, there is a correspondence between second countable Hausdorff etale groupoids which have a Cantor space of identities and what we call Tarski inverse monoids: that is, countable Boolean inverse A-monoids with semilattices of idempotents which are countable and atomless. Tarski inverse monoids are therefore the algebraic counterparts of the etale groupoids studied by Matui and provide a natural setting for many of his calculations. Under this duality, we prove that natural properties of the etale groupoid correspond to natural algebraic properties of the Tarski inverse monoid: effective groupoids correspond to fundamental Tarski inverse monoids and minimal groupoids correspond to 0-simplifying Tarski inverse monoids. Particularly interesting are the principal groupoids which correspond to Tarski inverse monoids where every element is a finite join of infinitesimals and idempotents. Here an infinitesimal is simply a non-zero element with square zero. The groups of units of fundamental Tarski inverse monoids generalize the finite symmetric groups and include amongst their number the Thompson groups G(n,1) as well as the groups of units of AF inverse monoids, Krieger's ample groups being examples. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.