C*-pseudo-multiplicative unitaries

Abstract

We introduce $C^*$-pseudo-multiplicative unitaries and (concrete) Hopf $C^*$-bimodules, which are $C^*$-algebraic variants of the pseudo-multiplicative unitaries on Hilbert spaces and the Hopf-von Neumann-bimodules studied by Enock, Lesieur, Vallin. Moreover, we associate to every regular $C^*$-pseudo-multiplicative unitary two Hopf-$C^*$-bimodules and discuss examples related to locally compact groupoids.