Operator Algebras and their Connections with Topology and Ergodic Theory: Proceedings of the OATE Conference held in Buşteni, Romania, Aug. 29 – Sept. 9, 1983

Huzihiro Araki (auth.), Huzihiro Araki, Calvin C. Moore, Şerban-Valentin Stratila, Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (eds.)3540156437, 9783540156437

Table of contents :
Ergodic properties of some C*-dynamical systems….Pages 1-11
Factor states on C*-algebras….Pages 12-16
Continuous nests and the absorption principle….Pages 17-29
Banach bimodule associated to an action of a discrete group on a compact space….Pages 30-37
Noncommutative shape theory….Pages 38-45
Locality and differential operators on C*-algebras, II….Pages 46-83
Strong ergodicity and full II 1 -factors….Pages 84-90
Diameters of state spaces of type III factors….Pages 91-116
Problems in quantum field theory and in operator algebras….Pages 117-128
Quasi-product states on C*-algebras….Pages 129-151
Abelian group actions on type I C*-algebras….Pages 152-169
Injectivity and decomposition of completely bounded maps….Pages 170-222
JB-algebras with tensor products are C*-algebras….Pages 223-229
Reduced C*-algebras of discrete groups which are simple with a unique trace….Pages 230-253
Signature operator on lipschitz manifolds and unbounded Kasparov bimodules….Pages 254-288
Group actions on Irees and K-amenability….Pages 289-296
Diagonals in algebras of continuous trace….Pages 297-311
Appendix….Pages 312-323
Some problems and results on reflexive algebras….Pages 324-330
Approximation for actions of amenable groups and transversal automorphisms….Pages 331-346
Remarks on pseudonormalcy….Pages 347-349
Groupoid dynamical systems and crossed product….Pages 350-361
Z 2 — Equivariant K — Theory….Pages 362-373
Ranges of traces on K o of reduced crossed products by free groups….Pages 374-408
K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of SL 2 (Q p )….Pages 409-420
Hyperfinite subalgebras normalized by a given automorphism and related problems….Pages 421-433
Two applications of the dual groupoid of a C*-algebra….Pages 434-445
Invariants for topological markov chains….Pages 446-455
“Vector bundles” over higher dimensional “non-commutative tori”….Pages 456-467
Produits tensoriels de Z – modules et applications….Pages 468-485
Cohomology and the absence of strong ergodicity for ergodic group actions….Pages 486-496
Coding of markov shifts….Pages 497-508
C*-algebras of anosov foliations….Pages 509-516
A lattice-theoretic characterization of choquet simplexes….Pages 517-525
Dirac induction for semi-simple lie groups having one conjugacy class of cartan subgroups….Pages 526-555
Symmetries of some reduced free product C*-algebras….Pages 556-588
Vector Gleason measures and their Fourier transforms….Pages 589-594