K-Theory and Operator Algebras: Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, April 21–25, 1975

M. F. Atiyah (auth.), Bernard B. Morrel, I. M. Singer (eds.)9780387081335, 0-387-08133-X

Table of contents :
A survey of K-theory….Pages 1-9
Characterizing Ext(X)….Pages 10-18
Almost commuting algebras….Pages 19-43
Extensions of C*-algebras and K-homology….Pages 44-52
Bundles and sheaves are equivalent in the category of banach spaces….Pages 53-69
Topological obstructions to perturbations of pairs of operators….Pages 70-77
On algebraic K-theory and the homology of congruence subgroups….Pages 78-87
Configuration spaces….Pages 88-95
Extensions of C*-algebras and the reducing essential matricial spectra of an operator….Pages 96-112
K-homology theory and algebraic K-theory….Pages 113-127
Some remarks on operator theory and index theory….Pages 128-138
Factors of type III….Pages 139-156
Twisted products of Banach algebras and third Čech cohomology….Pages 157-174
H-cobordisms, pseudo-isotopies, and analytic torsion….Pages 175-191