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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151933703321

Titolo

K-Theory and Noncommutative Geometry [[electronic resource] /] / Guillermo Cortiñas, Joachim Cuntz, Max Karoubi, Ryszard Nest, Charles A. Weibel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2008

ISBN

3-03719-560-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 pages)

Collana

EMS Series of Congress Reports (ECR) ; , 2523-515X

Classificazione

19-xx58-xx

Soggetti

Algebraic geometry

$K$-theory

Global analysis, analysis on manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Categorical aspects of bivariant K-theory / Ralf Meyer -- Inheritance of isomorphism conjectures under colimits / Arthur Bartels, Siegfried Echterhoff, Wolfgang Lück -- Coarse and equivariant co-assembly maps / Heath Emerson, Ralf Meyer -- On K1 of a Waldhausen category / Fernando Muro, Andrew Tonks -- Twisted K-theory - old and new / Max Karoubi -- Equivariant cyclic homology for quantum groups / Christian Voigt -- A Schwartz type algebra for the tangent groupoid / Paulo Carrillo Rouse -- C*-algebras associated with the ax + b-semigroup over ℕ / Joachim Cuntz -- On a class of Hilbert C*-manifolds / Wend Werner -- Duality for topological abelian group stacks and T-duality / Ulrich Bunke, Thomas Schick, Markus Spitzweck, Andreas Thom -- Deformations of gerbes on smooth manifolds / Paul Bressler, Alexander Gorokhovsky, Ryszard Nest, Boris Tsygan -- Torsion classes of finite type and spectra / Grigory Garkusha, Mike Prest -- Parshin's conjecture revisited / Thomas Geisser -- Axioms for the norm residue isomorphism / Charles A. Weibel.

Sommario/riassunto

Since its inception 50 years ago, K-theory has been a tool for  understanding a wide-ranging family of mathematical structures and their  invariants: topological spaces, rings, algebraic varieties and operator  algebras are the dominant examples. The invariants range



from  characteristic classes in cohomology, determinants of matrices, Chow  groups of varieties, as well as traces and indices of elliptic operators.  Thus K-theory is notable for its connections with other branches of  mathematics.    Noncommutative geometry develops tools which allow  one to think of noncommutative algebras in the same footing as commutative  ones: as algebras of functions on (noncommutative) spaces. The algebras  in question come from problems in various areas of mathematics and mathematical  physics; typical examples include algebras of pseudodifferential operators, group algebras,  and other algebras arising from quantum field theory.    To study noncommutative geometric problems one considers invariants of the relevant noncommutative  algebras. These invariants include algebraic and topological K-theory, and also cyclic homology,  discovered independently by Alain Connes and Boris Tsygan, which can be regarded both as a noncommutative  version of de Rham cohomology and as an additive version of K-theory.  There are primary and secondary Chern characters which pass from  K-theory to cyclic homology. These characters are relevant both to noncommutative and commutative  problems, and have applications ranging from index theorems to the detection of singularities of commutative  algebraic varieties.    The contributions to this volume represent  this range of connections between K-theory, noncommmutative geometry, and other branches of mathematics.