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Basic noncommutative geometry / Massoud Khakhali.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: EMS series of lectures in mathematicsPublication details: Zürich : European Mathematical Society, c2009.Description: viii, 223 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783037190616
  • 3037190612
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 516.6 KHA
LOC classification:
  • QC20.7.D52 K48 2009
Contents:
Examples of algebra-geometry correspondences -- Noncommutative quotients -- Cyclic cohomology -- Connes-Chern character -- Appendices: Gelfand-Naimark theorems -- Compact operators, Fredholm operators, and abstract index theory -- Projective modules -- Equivalence of categories.
Summary: "Basic Noncommutative Geometry provides an introduction to noncommutative geometry and some of its applications. The book can be used either as a textbook for a graduate course on the subject or for self-study. It will be useful for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics and all those who are interested in gaining an understanding of the subject. One feature of this book is the wealth of examples and exercises that help the reader to navigate through the subject. While background material is provided in the text and in several appendices, some familiarity with basic notions of functional analysis, algebraic topology, differential geometry and homological algebra at a first year graduate level is helpful. Developed by Alain Connes since the late 1970s, noncommutative geometry has found many applications to long-standing conjectures in topology and geometry and has recently made headways in theoretical physics and number theory. The book starts with a detailed description of some of the most pertinent algebra-geometry correspondences by casting geometric notions in algebraic terms, then proceeds in the second chapter to the idea of a noncommutative space and how it is constructed. The last two chapters deal with homological tools: cyclic cohomology and Connes-Chern characters in K-theory and K-homology, culminating in one commutative diagram expressing the equality of topological and analytic index in a noncommutative setting. Applications to integrality of noncommutative topological invariants are given as well."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index.

Examples of algebra-geometry correspondences -- Noncommutative quotients -- Cyclic cohomology -- Connes-Chern character -- Appendices: Gelfand-Naimark theorems -- Compact operators, Fredholm operators, and abstract index theory -- Projective modules -- Equivalence of categories.

"Basic Noncommutative Geometry provides an introduction to noncommutative geometry and some of its applications. The book can be used either as a textbook for a graduate course on the subject or for self-study. It will be useful for graduate students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics and all those who are interested in gaining an understanding of the subject. One feature of this book is the wealth of examples and exercises that help the reader to navigate through the subject. While background material is provided in the text and in several appendices, some familiarity with basic notions of functional analysis, algebraic topology, differential geometry and homological algebra at a first year graduate level is helpful. Developed by Alain Connes since the late 1970s, noncommutative geometry has found many applications to long-standing conjectures in topology and geometry and has recently made headways in theoretical physics and number theory. The book starts with a detailed description of some of the most pertinent algebra-geometry correspondences by casting geometric notions in algebraic terms, then proceeds in the second chapter to the idea of a noncommutative space and how it is constructed. The last two chapters deal with homological tools: cyclic cohomology and Connes-Chern characters in K-theory and K-homology, culminating in one commutative diagram expressing the equality of topological and analytic index in a noncommutative setting. Applications to integrality of noncommutative topological invariants are given as well."--Publisher's description.

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