AF Embeddability of the C*-Algebra of a Deaconu-Renault Groupoid

<p>We study Deaconu-Renault groupoids corresponding to surjective local homeomorphisms on locally compact, Hausdorff, second countable, totally disconnected spaces, and we characterise when the C*-algebras of these groupoids are AF embeddable. Our main result generalises theorems in the literature for graphs and for crossed products of commutative C*-algebras by the integers. We give a condition on the surjective local homeomorphism that characterises the AF embeddability of the C*-algebra of the associated Deaconu-Renault groupoid. In order to prove our main result, we analyse homology groups for AF groupoids, and we prove a theorem that gives an explicit formula for the isomorphism of these groups and the corresponding K-theory. This isomorphism generalises FKPS, Matui, since we give an explicit formula for the isomorphism and we show that it preserves positive elements.</p>