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Any functor from the category of C*-algebras to the category of locales that assigns to each commutative C*-algebra its Gelfand spectrum must be trivial on algebras of nxn-matrices for n at least 3. This obstruction also applies to other…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-20 Benno van den Berg , Chris Heunen

In the setting of C*-categories, we provide a definition of "spectrum" of a commutative full C*-category as a one-dimensional unital saturated Fell bundle over a suitable groupoid (equivalence relation) and prove a categorical Gelfand…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Paolo Bertozzini , Roberto Conti , Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul

Given a connected and locally compact Hausdorff space X with a good base K we assign, in a functorial way, a C(X)-algebra to any precosheaf of C*-algebras A defined over K. Afterwards we consider the representation theory and the Kasparov…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Giuseppe Ruzzi , Ezio Vasselli

This paper brings together C*-algebras and algebraic topology in terms of viewing a C*-algebraic invariant in terms of a topological spectrum. E-theory, E(A,B), is a bivariant functor in the sense that is a cohomology functor in the first…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Sarah L. Browne

To a given tiling a non commutative space and the corresponding C*-algebra are constructed. This includes the definition of a topology on the groupoid induced by translations of the tiling. The algebra is also the algebra of observables for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Johannes Kellendonk

We consider a class of C*-algebras C(X) associated with quantum spaces such as spheres, projective spaces, and lens spaces. We introduce a non-self-adjoint operator algebra A together with an explicit functor from the category of…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Arnaud Brothier

We define possibly unsaturated, upper semicontinuous Fell bundles over Hausdorff, locally compact groupoids and establish a universal property for representations of their full section C*-algebras on Hilbert modules over arbitrary…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alcides Buss , Rohit Holkar , Ralf Meyer

Topological quivers are generalizations of directed graphs in which the sets of vertices and edges are locally compact Hausdorff spaces. Associated to such a topological quiver Q is a C*-correspondence, and from this correspondence one may…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul S. Muhly , Mark Tomforde

A covariant functor from the category of generic complex algebraic curves to a category of the AF-algebras is constructed. The construction is based on a representation of the Teichmueller space of a curve by the measured foliations due to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-19 Igor Nikolaev

We describe basic concepts of noncommutative geometry and a general construction extending the familiar duality between ordinary spaces and commutative algebras to a duality between Quotient spaces and Noncommutative algebras. Basic tools…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alain Connes

We determine the class of finite T_0-spaces allowing for a universal coefficient theorem computing equivariant KK-theory by filtrated K-theory.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Rasmus Bentmann , Manuel Köhler

We characterize those algebras over a disconnected uniformly complete topological field which are representable as algebras of continuous functions on compact topological spaces, generalizing thus Gelfand duality for non-archimedean normed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Sebastián Rodríguez , Xavier Caicedo

Gelfand - Na\u{i}mark theorem supplies a one to one correspondence between commutative $C^*$-algebras and locally compact Hausdorff spaces. So any noncommutative $C^*$-algebra can be regarded as a generalization of a topological space.…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Petr R. Ivankov

We define united K-theory for real C*-algebras, generalizing Bousfield's topological united K-theory. United K-theory incorporates three functors -- real K-theory, complex K-theory, and self-conjugate K-theory -- and the natural…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey L. Boersema

This work provides a generalization of the Gelfand duality to the context of noncommutative locally $C^*$ algebras. Using a reformulation of a theorem proven by Dauns and Hofmann in the 60's we show that every locally $C^*$ algebra can be…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Michael Forger , Daniel V. Paulino

Topological quivers generalize the notion of directed graphs in which the sets of vertices and edges are locally compact (second countable) Hausdorff spaces. Associated to a topological quiver $Q$ is a $C^*$-correspondence, and in turn, a…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Shawn J. McCann

C*-algebras form rather general and rich mathematical structures that can be studied with different morphisms (preserving multiplication, or not), and with different properties (commutative, or not). These various options can be used to…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Robert W. J. Furber , Bart P. F. Jacobs

We translate the concept of the join of topological spaces to the language of $C^*$-algebras, replace the $C^*$-algebra of functions on the interval $[0,1]$ with evaluation maps at $0$ and $1$ by a unital $C^*$-algebra $C$ with appropriate…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Ludwik Dabrowski , Tom Hadfield , Piotr M. Hajac

We show how the Gelfand spectrum of certain commutative operator algebras can be studied based on the theorem of Stone and von Neumann. The method presented is a natural addition to the tools of quantum spectral synthesis, which were…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Robert Fulsche , Oliver Fürst

We extend the spectral theory of commutative C*-categories to the non full-case, introducing a suitable notion of spectral spaceoid provinding a duality between a category of "non-trivial" *-functors of non-full commutative C*-categories…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Paolo Bertozzini , Roberto Conti , Wicharn Lewkeeratiyutkul , Kasemsun Rutamorn