An informal introduction to the ideas and concepts of noncommutative geometry

dc.creatorMasson, Thierry
dc.date2006-12-04
dc.date2006-12-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:35:18Z
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dc.descriptionThis informal introduction is an extended version of a three hours lecture given at the 6th Peyresq meeting ``Integrable systems and quantum field theory''. In this lecture, we make an overview of some of the mathematical results which motivated the development of what is called noncommutative geometry. The first of these results is the theorem by Gelfand and Neumark about commutative $C^\ast$-algebras; then come some aspects of the $K$-theories, first for topological spaces, then for $C^\ast$-algebras and finally the purely algebraic version. Cyclic homology is introduced, keeping in mind its relation to differential structures. The last result is the construction of the Chern character, which shows how these developments are related to each other.
dc.description56 pages, Lecture given at the 6th Peyresq meeting "Integrable systems and quantum field theory", misprint corrected in rev. 2
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0612012
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0612012
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120050
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleAn informal introduction to the ideas and concepts of noncommutative geometry
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