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# Simplicity of skew inverse semigroup rings with applications to Steinberg algebras and topological dynamics

Viviane Beuter
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• Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, BR-88040-900; and Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Joinville, BR-89219-710, Brazil
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Published Online: 2018-11-22 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/forum-2018-0160

## Abstract

Given a partial action π of an inverse semigroup S on a ring $\mathcal{𝒜}$, one may construct its associated skew inverse semigroup ring $\mathcal{𝒜}{⋊}_{\pi }S$. Our main result asserts that, when $\mathcal{𝒜}$ is commutative, the ring $\mathcal{𝒜}{⋊}_{\pi }S$ is simple if, and only if, $\mathcal{𝒜}$ is a maximal commutative subring of $\mathcal{𝒜}{⋊}_{\pi }S$ and $\mathcal{𝒜}$ is S-simple. We apply this result in the context of topological inverse semigroup actions to connect simplicity of the associated skew inverse semigroup ring with topological properties of the action. Furthermore, we use our result to present a new proof of the simplicity criterion for a Steinberg algebra ${A}_{R}\left(\mathcal{𝒢}\right)$ associated with a Hausdorff and ample groupoid $\mathcal{𝒢}$.

MSC 2010: 16S99; 16W22; 16W55; 22A22; 37B05

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## About the article

Received: 2018-07-06

Revised: 2018-10-17

Published Online: 2018-11-22

Award identifier / Grant number: 304487/2017-1

The second author was partially supported by CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, under grant number 304487/2017-1.

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