1st Edition

Operator Algebras, Mathematical Physics, and Low Dimensional Topology

Edited By Richard Herman, Betül Tanbay Copyright 1993
    336 Pages
    by A K Peters/CRC Press

    This volume records the proceedings of an international conference that explored recent developments and the interaction between mathematical theory and physical phenomena.

    NON-COMMUTATIVE SPHERES and NUMERICAL QUANTUM MECHANICS; Matricial and Ultramatricial Topology; Remarks on the Three-Manifold Invariants ? p; The Crossed Product of the Irrational Rotation Algebra by the Flip; Quadratic and Exchange Algebras, and Modified Yang-Baxter Relations for the Selfdual Yang-Mills System and the WZNW Model; Regular Actions of Hopf Algebras on the C*-Algebra Generated by a Hilbert Space; Operator Algebras, Group Actions and Abstract Duals; A Classification of Certain Simple C*-Algebras; On Two Quantized Tensor Products 1; Geometry of Differential Equations and Projective Representations of the witt Algebra; Spin Model on Knot Projections; Towards Extracting Physical Predictions from Alain Connes' Version of the Standard Model (The New Grand Unification?); A Commutator Inequality; Duals of Compact Groups Realized by Semigroups of Non-Unital Endomorphisms of C *-Algebras; A New Index for Continuous Semigroups of *-Endomorphisms of B(H); Topological Orbit Equivalence; Toeplitz C *-Alegras on Pseudoconvex Domains with Transverse Symmetries; Normal Subgroups of the Automorphism Group of a Factor; Subfactors and Invariants of 3-Manifolds

    Biography

    Richard Herman, Betül Tanbay