Operator algebras and applications : proceedings of the Symposium in Pure Mathematics of the American Mathematical Society held at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, July 14-August 2, 1980 / edited by Richard V. Kadison.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Symposium in Pure Mathematics, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

American Mathematical Society, issuing body.

Kadison, Richard V., editor.

Conference Name:

Symposium in Pure Mathematics (1980 : Queens University), issuing body.

Series:

Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; volume 38, part 2.

Proceedings of symposia in pure mathematics ; volume 38, part 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operator algebras--Congresses.

Operator algebras.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (642 p.)

Place of Publication:

Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Table of Contents�Part 2""; ""Author index""; ""Celebration of Tomita's theorem""; ""Positive cones for von Neumann algebras""; ""Geometric aspects of the Tomita-Takesaki theory""; ""Left Hilbert systems""; ""ITPFI factors�a survey""; ""Classification des facteurs""; ""Automorphisms and von Neumann algebras of type III""; ""A survey of W*-categories""; ""Cohomological invariants for groups of outer automorphisms of von neumann algebras""; ""Automorphism groups and invariant states""; ""Compact ergodic groups of automorphisms""; ""Actions of discrete groups on factors""

""Ergodic theory and von Neumann algebras""""Topologies on measured groupoids""; ""Cohomology theory for operator algebras""; ""Low dimensional cohomology of Banach algebras""; ""Derivations and their relation to perturbations of operator algebras""; ""Invariants of C*-algebras stable under perturbations""; ""Automorphisms of continuous trace C*-algebras""; ""On lifting automorphisms""; ""Derivations and automorphisms of Jordan C*-algebras""; ""Order structure and Jordan Banach algebras""; ""A Tomita-Takesaki theory for JBW-algebras""; ""Faithful normal states on JBW-algebras""

""Developments in the theory of unbounded derivations in C*-algebras""""Derivations of abelian C*-algebras""; ""Closed *-derivations commuting with an automorphism group""; ""Differentiable structure on non-abelian C*-algebras""; ""Unbounded *-derivations and infinitesimal generators on operator algebras""; ""Perturbations""; ""Generators of dynamical semigroups""; ""The characterization of the analytic generator of *-automorphism groups""; ""Almost uniformly continuous dynamical systems""; ""Algebras of unbounded operators""; ""C*-algebras and statistical mechanics""

""Does ergodicity plus locality imply the Gibbs structure?""""Stability in statistical mechanics""; ""Phase transitions""; ""Nature of Bose condensation""; ""Perturbations of free evolutions and Poisson measures""; ""Structural questions in quantum field theory""; ""New light on the mathematical structure of algebraic field theory""; ""Algebraic and modular structure of von Neumann algebras of physics""; ""Local nets of C*-algebras and the structure of elementary particles""; ""Quasi-periodic Hamiltonians. A mathematical approach""; ""Positive linear maps""

""Representations of inseparable C*-algebras""""C*-algebras with a countable dual""; ""A structure theory in the regular monotone completion of C*-algebras""; ""Commuting pairs of C* algebras in the Calkin algebra""; ""C*-algebras of multivariate Wiener-Hopf operators""; ""The concept of bibounded operators on W*-algebras""; ""Contractive projections on C*-algebras""; ""Problems on joint quasitriangularity for N-tuples of essentially commuting, essentially normal operators""; ""Spectral permanence for joint spectra""

""Unbounded negative definite functions and property T for locally compact groups""

Notes:

Prepared by the American Mathematical Society with partial support from National Science Foundation grant MCS 79-27061.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 19, 2014).

ISBN:

0-8218-9328-9