Equivalence of Fell bundles over groups

Abstract

We give a notion of equivalence for Fell bundles over groups, not necessarily saturated nor separable, and show that equivalent Fell bundles have Morita-Rieffel equivalent cross-sectional $C^{\ast }$-algebras. Our notion is originated in the context of partial actions and their enveloping actions. The equivalence between two Fell bundles is implemented by a bundle of Hilbert bimodules with some extra structure. Suitable cross-sectional spaces of such a bundle turn out to be imprimitivity bimodules for the cross-sectional $C^{\ast }$-algebras of the involved Fell bundles. We show that amenability is preserved under this equivalence and, by means of a convenient notion of internal tensor product between Fell bundles, we show that equivalence of Fell bundles is an equivalence relation.

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