THE BRAUER SEMIGROUP OF A GROUPOID AND A SYMMETRIC IMPRIMITIVITY THEOREM

In this paper we define a monoid called the Brauer semigroup for a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid E whose elements consist of Morita equivalence classes of E-dynamical systems. This construction generalizes both the equivariant Brauer semigroup for transformation groups and the Brauer group for a groupoid. We show that groupoid equivalence induces an isomorphism of Brauer semigroups and that this isomorphism preserves the Morita equivalence classes of the respective crossed products, thus generalizing Raeburn's symmetric imprimitivity theorem.