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Is there a notion of point in noncommutative geometry?
It is not clear to me whether there is a general notion of point in NCG. I have heard (more through physics) that the notion of a point becomes meaningless or ill-defined in noncommutative spaces, but ...
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Kaplansky inverse element theorem on group C-star algebra
In a class talking about $C^*$ algebra and (higher) index theory, I heard a theorem
(related to Kaplansky, proved?), that is
Suppose $\Gamma$ is a group (admitting Haar measure if necessary) while $\...
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Inner product on Standard form of von Neumann algebra
Let $(M, H, H_+,J)$ be a standard form of a von Neumann algebra $M$ acting on a complex Hilbert space $H$ endowed with a self-dual cone $H_+$. Is it true that
$$\langle x,yz\rangle=\langle zx,y\rangle$...
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Upper triangular $2\times2$-matrices over a Baer *-ring
Let $A$ be a Baer $*$-ring. Let us denote $B$ by the space of all upper triangular matrices
$\left(\begin{array}{cc}
a_1& a_2 \\
0 & a_4
\end{array}\right)$ where $a_i$'s are in $A$. Is $B$ ...
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Is the square diagram of index and exponential maps in $K$-theory of $C^*$-algebras anti-commutative?
Assume we have a $3\times 3$ grid with rows and columns being short exact sequences of $C^*$-algebras.
This gives a grid of 6-term exact sequences: 3 "horizontal" sequences and 3 "vertical" sequences,...
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Computing noncommutative geometries
I find myself needing to construct some noncommutative geometries. I want to take various (algeba-) geometric objects and look at their noncommutative analogs. Is there a constructive way to do this? ...
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$\mathbb{Z}G$ (left) Noetherian$\Rightarrow$ $\ell^1(G)$ is a flat (right) $\mathbb{Z}G$-module?
Let $G$ be a countable discrete group (not necessarily abelian), and suppose the group ring $\mathbb{Z}G$ is a left-Noetherian ring, for example, when $G$ is a polycyclic-by-finite group.
Denote the ...
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Noncommutative arithmetic mean geometric mean inequality and symmetric polynomials
While analyzing convergence speed of stochastic-gradient methods for convex optimization problems, Recht et al (2011) posed a tantalizing conjecture. It seems quite tricky, so after having struggled a ...
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How to quantify noncommutativity?
If I have two operators or finite-dimensional matrices $A$ and $B$, how can I quantify the amount to which they commute or don't commute? (I would consider it a big plus if it is computable easily for ...
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Simplest examples of rings that are not isomorphic to their opposites
What are the simplest examples of
rings that are not isomorphic to their
opposite rings? Is there a science to constructing them?
The only simple example known to me:
In Jacobson's Basic Algebra (...
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unitary reduction of $q$-normal matrices
The unitary reduction of normal matrices is a well-known fact: if $A\in M_n(\mathbb C)$ commutes with its Hermitian adjoint $A^*$, then there exists a unitary $U\in\mathbb U_n$ and a diagonal matrix $...
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Does there exist any massive proper $C^*$-subalgebra?
Definition 1: Suppose $B$ is a $C^* $-algebra. $A$ is massive $C^* $-subalgebra of $B$ iff
1. $A$ is a subalgebra of $B$;
2. for each irreducible representation $\pi$ of $B$ representation $\pi|_A$ is ...
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Spectral decomposition for an arbitrary linear combination of position and momentum operators
Suppose we have the Hilbert space L2(Rn) and we have n operators Qi and n operators Pi defined in the usual way by:
Qi ψ(q1,q2,...,qn) = qi ψ(q1,q2,...,qn)
Pi ψ(q1,q2,...,qn) = -i $\frac{...
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Examples of noncommutative analogs outside operator algebras?
Theo's question made me wonder if there are other "noncommutative analogs" outside of operator algebras. Some noncommutative analogs from operator algebras include:
A $C^\ast$-algebra is a ...
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Inverses in convolution algebras
Let $G$ be a locally compact totally disconnected group, and to make life easy let's suppose its Haar measure is bi-invariant. Let $C_c(G)$ be the space of locally constant complex functions on $G$ ...
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Do torsion-free groups give projectionless group ($C^\ast$) algebras?
One of the reasons I study von Neumann algebras is that they always have plenty of projections. There are many projectionless $C^\ast$-algebras ($0$ and possibly $1$ are the only projections), but the ...
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Maximal localizations of von Neumann algebras
Suppose M is a von Neumann algebra.
Denote by L its maximal noncommutative localization,
i.e., the Ore localization with respect to the set of all left and right regular elements,
i.e., elements whose ...
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Hochschild/cyclic homology of von Neumann algebras: useless?
Hochschild homology gives invariants of (unital) $k$-algebras for $k$ a unital, commutative ring. If we let our algebra $A$ be the group ring $k[G]$ for $G$ a finite group, we get group homology. ...
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Ideals in Factors
One can easily prove that factors have no nontrivial ultraweakly closed 2-sided ideals as these are equivalent to nontrivial central projections. One can also show type $I_n$, type $II_1$, and type $...
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