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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480476303321

Titolo

Index theory of elliptic operators, foliations, and operator algebras : proceedings of AMS Special Sessions, held January 7, 1986 and April 11, 1986 / / Jerome Kaminker, Kenneth C. Millett, and Claude Schochet, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]

©1988

ISBN

0-8218-7659-7

0-8218-5077-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 70

Disciplina

515.7/242

Soggetti

Index theory (Mathematics)

Elliptic operators

Foliations (Mathematics)

Operator algebras

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

English and French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""The theory of levels""; ""Toeplitz operators and the eta invariant: the case of S1""; ""Sur la Conjecture de Novikov""; ""A new proof of the K-amenability of SU(1, 1)""; ""Some interesting group actions""; ""A relation between index and exotic classes""; ""The Universal Coefficient Theorem for equivariant K-theory of real and complex C*-algebras""; ""Equivariant K-theory for proper actions and C*-algebras""; ""Equivariant K-theory for proper actions II: some cases in which finite dimensional bundles suffice""

""Operator algebras and index theory on non-compact manifolds""""K-theory of group C*-algebras, foliation algebras and crossed products""; ""Preface""; ""1. Group C *-algebras and crossed products""; ""2. Foliation C *-algebras""; ""3. K-theory of C *-algebras""; ""4. The Kasparov KK-functor""; ""5. Batt periodicity revisited""; ""6. The big picture""; ""Selected references""; ""Non-commutative CW-complexes""