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Symmetry groups or groupoids of C*-algebras associated to non-Hausdorff spaces are often non-Hausdorff as well. We describe such symmetries using crossed modules of groupoids. We define actions of crossed modules on C*-algebras and crossed products for such actions, and justify these definitions with some basic general results and examples.
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Supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)) through individual grant ME 3248/1-1 and the Institutional Strategy of the University of Göttingen.
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