Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 March 2013
Suppose that $G$ is a second countable, locally compact Hausdorff groupoid with abelian stabiliser subgroups and a Haar system. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the groupoid
${C}^{\ast } $-algebra to have Hausdorff spectrum. In particular, we show that the spectrum of
${C}^{\ast } (G)$ is Hausdorff if and only if the stabilisers vary continuously with respect to the Fell topology, the orbit space
${G}^{(0)} / G$ is Hausdorff, and, given convergent sequences
${\chi }_{i} \rightarrow \chi $ and
${\gamma }_{i} \cdot {\chi }_{i} \rightarrow \omega $ in the dual stabiliser groupoid
$\widehat{S}$ where the
${\gamma }_{i} \in G$ act via conjugation, if
$\chi $ and
$\omega $ are elements of the same fibre then
$\chi = \omega $.