Author	Rรธrdam, Mikael. author
Title	Classification of Nuclear C*-Algebras. Entropy in Operator Algebras [electronic resource] / by Mikael Rรธrdam, Erling Stรธrmer
Imprint	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04825-2
Descript	IX, 198 p. online resource

This EMS volume consists of two parts, written by leading scientists in the field of operator algebras and non-commutative geometry. The first part, written by M.Rordam entitled "Classification of Nuclear, Simple C*-Algebras" is on Elliotts classification program. The emphasis is on the classification by Kirchberg and Phillips of Kirchberg algebras: purely infinite, simple, nuclear separable C*-algebras. This classification result is described almost with full proofs starting from Kirchbergs tensor product theorems and Kirchbergs embedding theorem for exact C*-algebras. The classificatin of finite simple C*-algebras starting with AF-algebras, and continuing with AF- and AH-algberas) is covered, but mostly without proofs. The second part, written by E.Stormer entitled "A Survey of Noncommutative Dynamical Entropy" is a survey of the theory of noncommutative entropy of automorphisms of C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras from its initiation by Connes and Stormer in 1975 till 2001. The main definitions and resuls are discussed and illustrated with the key examples in the theory. This book will be useful to graduate students and researchers in the field of operator algebras and related areas

Part I. Classification of Nuclear, Simple C*-Algebras, M.Rordam: 1. AF-algebras and their Classification -- 2. Preliminaries -- 3. Classification results for finite C*-algebras -- 4. Purely infinite simple C*-algebras -- 5. On O 2 -- 6. Nuclear and exact C*-algebras and exact C*-algebras -- 7. Tensor products by O 2 and O ร{150}infty -- 8. Classification of Kirchberg algebras -- Part II. A Survey of Noncommutative Dynamical Entropy, E. Stormer: Introduction -- 1. Entropy in finite von Neumann algebras -- 2. Entropy in C*-algebras -- 3. Bogoliubov automorphisms -- 4. The entropy of Sauvageot and Thouvenot -- 5. Voiculescu's approximation entropies -- 6. Crossed products -- 7. Free products -- 8. Binary shifts -- 9. Generators -- 10. The variational principle