%0 Journal Article %A Ortega, Eduard %A Pardo Espino, Enrique %T The tight groupoid of the inverse semigroups of left cancellative small categories %D 2019 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/21381 %X We fix a path model for the space of filters of the inverse semigroup S_Λ associated to a left cancellative small category Λ. Then, we compute its tight groupoid, thus giving a representation of its C*-algebra as a (full) groupoid algebra. Using it, we characterize when these algebras are simple. Also, we determine amenability of the tight groupoid under mild, reasonable hypotheses. %K Left cancellative small category %K inverse semigroup %K tight representation %K tight groupoid %K groupoid C*-algebra %~ Universidad de Cádiz