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Record Nr.

UNISA996466635003316

Autore

Hofmann Karl Heinrich

Titolo

The duality of compact semigroups and C-bigebras / / K. H. Hofmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1970]

©1970

ISBN

3-540-36269-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 1970.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 146 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics ; ; 129

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Definition of duality -- Multiplicative categories -- Algebras over a category with multiplication -- Cogebras over a category with multiplication -- Bigebras -- C*-algebras -- A multiplication for the category C* -- The confunctor spec for commutative C*-algebras -- Finite coproducts of commutative C*-algebras with identity -- C*-Cogebras -- The duality of compact semigroups -- Involutive bigebras and their relation to C*-bigebras -- Dualities for compact groups -- Dualities for totally disconnected compact semigroups -- Discrete involutive semigroups and duality.