Preface |
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1 | (4) |
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2 Crossed products and the Mackey--Rieffel--Green machine |
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5 | (76) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (5) |
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6 | (1) |
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2.2.2 Multiplier algebras |
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7 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Commutative C*-algebras and functional calculus |
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7 | (2) |
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2.2.4 Representation and ideal spaces of C*-algebras |
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9 | (1) |
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10 | (1) |
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2.3 Actions and their crossed products |
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11 | (5) |
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2.3.1 Haar measure and vector-valued integration on groups |
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11 | (1) |
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2.3.2 C*-dynamical systems and their crossed products |
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12 | (4) |
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2.4 Crossed products versus tensor products |
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16 | (3) |
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2.5 The correspondence categories |
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19 | (12) |
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20 | (1) |
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2.5.2 Morita equivalences |
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21 | (3) |
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2.5.3 The correspondence categories |
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24 | (1) |
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2.5.4 The equivariant correspondence categories |
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25 | (1) |
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2.5.5 Induced representations and ideals |
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26 | (4) |
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2.5.6 The Fell topologies and weak containment |
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30 | (1) |
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2.6 Green's imprimitivity theorem and applications |
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31 | (12) |
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2.6.1 The imprimitivity theorem |
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31 | (8) |
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2.6.2 The Takesaki--Takai duality theorem |
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39 | (1) |
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2.6.3 Permanence properties of exact groups |
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40 | (3) |
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2.7 Induced representations and the ideal structure of crossed products |
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43 | (21) |
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2.7.1 Induced representations of groups and crossed products |
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43 | (9) |
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2.7.2 The ideal structure of crossed products |
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52 | (9) |
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2.7.3 The Mackey machine for transformation groups |
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61 | (3) |
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2.8 The Mackey--Rieffel--Green machine for twisted crossed products |
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64 | (17) |
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2.8.1 Twisted actions and twisted crossed products |
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64 | (4) |
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2.8.2 The twisted equivariant correspondence category and the stabilisation trick |
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68 | (3) |
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2.8.3 Twisted Takesaki-Takai duality |
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71 | (1) |
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2.8.4 Stability of exactness under group extensions |
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71 | (2) |
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2.8.5 Induced representations of twisted crossed products |
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73 | (1) |
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2.8.6 Twisted group algebras, actions on κ and Mackey's little group method |
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74 | (7) |
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3 Bivariant K K-Theory and the Baum--Connes conjecure |
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81 | (68) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (5) |
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3.3 Kasparov's equivariant K K-theory |
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88 | (19) |
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3.3.1 Graded C*-algebras and Hilbert modules |
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88 | (2) |
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3.3.2 Kasparov's bivariant K-groups |
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90 | (3) |
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3.3.3 The Kasparov product |
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93 | (5) |
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3.3.4 Higher K K-groups and Bott-periodicity |
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98 | (8) |
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3.3.5 Excision in K K-theory |
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106 | (1) |
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3.4 The Baum--Connes conjecture |
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107 | (22) |
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3.4.1 The universal proper G-space |
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107 | (3) |
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3.4.2 The Baum--Connes assembly map |
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110 | (5) |
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3.4.3 Proper G-algebras and the Dirac dual-Dirac method |
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115 | (13) |
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3.4.4 The Baum--Connes conjecture for group extensions |
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128 | (1) |
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3.5 The going-down (or restriction) principle and applications |
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129 | (20) |
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3.5.1 The going-down principle |
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129 | (7) |
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3.5.2 Applications of the going-down principle |
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136 | (3) |
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3.5.3 Crossed products by actions on totally disconnected spaces |
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139 | (10) |
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4 Quantitative K-theory for geometric operator algebras |
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149 | (18) |
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149 | (2) |
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4.2 Geometric C*-algebras |
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151 | (2) |
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4.3 Quantitative K-theory for C*-algebras |
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153 | (1) |
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4.4 A quantitative Mayer--Vietoris sequence |
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154 | (3) |
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4.5 Dynamic asymptotic dimension and K-theory of crossed product C-algebras |
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157 | (2) |
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4.6 Asymptotic dimension for geometric C*-algebras and the Kunneth formula |
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159 | (2) |
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4.7 Quantitative X-theory for Banach algebras |
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161 | (6) |
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167 | (106) |
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167 | (1) |
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5.2 C*-algebras generated by left regular representations |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (6) |
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5.3.1 The natural numbers |
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169 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Positive cones in totally ordered groups |
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170 | (1) |
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5.3.3 Monoids given by presentations |
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170 | (3) |
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5.3.4 Examples from rings in general, and number theory in particular |
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173 | (1) |
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5.3.5 Finitely generated abelian cancellative semigroups |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (7) |
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5.4.1 Embedding semigroups into groups |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (4) |
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180 | (2) |
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5.5 C*-algebras attached to inverse semigroups, partial dynamical systems and groupoids |
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182 | (22) |
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182 | (6) |
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5.5.2 Partial dynamical systems |
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188 | (4) |
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192 | (3) |
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5.5.4 The universal groupoid of an inverse semigroup |
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195 | (2) |
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5.5.5 Inverse semigroup C*-algebras as groupoid C*-algebras |
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197 | (3) |
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5.5.6 C*-algebras of partial dynamical systems as C*-algebras of partial transformation groupoids |
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200 | (3) |
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5.5.7 The case of inverse semigroups admitting an idempotent pure partial homomorphism to a group |
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203 | (1) |
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5.6 Amenability and nuclearity |
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204 | (35) |
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5.6.1 Groups and groupoids |
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205 | (3) |
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5.6.2 Amenability for semigroups |
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208 | (1) |
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5.6.3 Comparing reduced C*-algebras for left cancellative semigroups and their left inverse hulls |
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209 | (7) |
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5.6.4 C*-algebras generated by semigroups of projections |
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216 | (6) |
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5.6.5 The independence condition |
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222 | (8) |
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5.6.6 Construction of full semigroup C*-algebras |
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230 | (2) |
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5.6.7 Crossed product and groupoid C*-algebra descriptions of reduced semigroup C*-algebras |
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232 | (3) |
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5.6.8 Amenability of semigroups in terms of C*-algebras |
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235 | (3) |
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5.6.9 Nuclearity of semigroup C*-algebras and the connection to amenability |
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238 | (1) |
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5.7 Topological freeness, boundary quotients, and C*-simplicity |
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239 | (10) |
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5.8 The Toeplitz condition |
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249 | (7) |
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256 | (12) |
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5.9.1 Constructible right ideals |
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257 | (4) |
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5.9.2 The independence condition |
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261 | (4) |
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5.9.3 The Toeplitz condition |
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265 | (3) |
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268 | (2) |
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5.11 Further developments, outlook, and open questions |
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270 | (3) |
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6 Algebraic actions and their C*-algebras |
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273 | (24) |
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273 | (2) |
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6.2 Single algebraic endomorphisms |
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275 | (8) |
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6.2.1 The K-theory of u[ φ] |
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278 | (3) |
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281 | (2) |
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6.3 Actions by a family of endomorphisms, ring C*-algebras |
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283 | (3) |
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6.4 Regular C*-algebras for ax + b - semigroups |
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286 | (3) |
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6.5 The K-theory for C*λ(R × R×) |
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289 | (3) |
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292 | (5) |
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7 Semigroup C*-algebras and toric varieties |
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297 | (10) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (3) |
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7.3 The regular C*-algebra for a toric semigroup |
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301 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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