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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788890703321

Autore

Handelman David <1950->

Titolo

Positive polynomials and product type actions of compact groups / / David Handelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

1-4704-0733-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Number 320

Disciplina

512/.55

Soggetti

C*-algebras

Rings (Algebra)

Representations of groups

K-theory

Compact groups

Polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 1985, Volume 54, Number 320 (second of 6 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 78-79.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I. Orders in ordered rings""; ""II. Projectively faithful characters and orders""; ""III. Density of point evaluations in the pure state space""; ""IV. Extending states via the maximal torus""; ""V. Eventual polynomial positivity""; ""VI. Polynomial rings on polyhedra""; ""VII. Applications to fixed point algebras and crossed products""