Tulane University Ring and Operator Theory Year, 1970-1971: Vol. 2: Lectures on Operator Algebras

by Karl H. Hofmann

Topics in C*- and von neumann algebras.- Infinitely divisible probaility measures on compact groups.- Darstellung Verallgemeinerter L1-Algebren II.- Lectures on the trace in a finite von Neumann algebra.- Cohomology of operator algebras.- Generations of von Neumann algebras.- Hyponormal operators and related topics.- Duality and von Neumann algebras.

808 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 1972

About the author

Prof. Dr. Karl Heinrich Hofmann is a mathematician who earned his Ph.D. in 1958 from the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Since then has been lecturing in the U.S. (Universities of Tulane and Princeton), France (Université de Paris), Australia (La Trobe University, Melbourne), Belgium (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve) and Germany (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt and Universität Tübingen).
He is also Deputy Managing Editor of the Journal of Lie Theory, Honorary Editor of the Semigroup Forum, Editor of Research and Exposition in Mathematics and Editor of Heldermann Verlag.