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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480226403321

Titolo

Operator algebras, quantization, and noncommutative geometry : a centennial celebration honoring John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone : AMS special session on operator algebras, quantization, and non-commutative geometry : a centennial celebration honoring John von Neumann and Marshall H. Stone, January 15-16, 2003, Baltimore, Maryland / / Robert S. Doran, Richard V. Kadison, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-8218-7955-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (434 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 365

Disciplina

512/.556

Soggetti

K-theory

Operator algebras

Lie groups

Functional analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The Legend of John von Neumann""; ""Marshall H. Stone: Mathematician, Statesman, Advisor, and Friend""; ""The Universal A-Dynamical System""; ""On the Index of Equivariant Elliptic Operators""; ""The Algebraization of Dynamics: Amenability, Nuclearity, Quasidiagonality, and Approximate Finite Dimensionality""; ""Multipliers, C*-modules, and Algebraic Structure in Spaces of Hilbert Space Operators""; ""Meromorphic Continuation of Zeta Functions Associated to Elliptic Operators""; ""Non-commutative Conditional Expectations and their Applications""

""On Shifts of Minimal Index on the Hyperfinite II1 Factor""""Compact Quantum Metric Spaces""; ""A Selective History of the Stone-von Neumann Theorem""; ""Decomposable Maps on Non-commutative Lp-spaces""; ""A Survey of Hochschild Cohomology for von Neumann Algebras""; ""From the Stone-von Neumann Theorem to the Equivariant



Brauer Group and Beyond""