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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811520803321

Titolo

Index theory and operator algebras : proceedings of a CBMS regional conference held August 6-10, 1991 with support from the National Science Foundation / / Jeffrey Fox, Peter Haskell, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1993]

©1993

ISBN

0-8218-7739-9

0-8218-5482-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 148

Disciplina

514/.74

Soggetti

Index theory (Mathematics)

Operator algebras

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Proceedings of a CBMS Regional Conference on K-Homology and Index Theory held August 6-10, 1991 in Boulder, Colorado"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Equivariant Homology for SL(2) of a p-adic field""; ""Cyclic homology and the Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem""; ""K- homology and the index theorem""; ""On the K-theory proof of the index theorem""; ""Topology of covers and the spectral theory of geometric operators""; ""Some applications of cyclic cohomology to the study of group C* -algebras""; ""Spectral theory for self-adjoint operator extensions associated with Clifford algebras""; ""Averaging operators and open manifolds""; ""K-theory and a bivariable Fredholm index""