Applications of the Gelfand--Naimark duality

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Main Author: Farah, Ilijas
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contents Stone duality is an indispensable tool for the study of compact, zero-dimensional, Hausdorff spaces. In the case of general compact Hausdorff spaces one can get quite a bit of mileage by considering the `Wallman duality' between compact spaces and lattices of closed sets. I will argue that the Gelfand--Naimark duality between compact Hausdorff spaces and unital, commutative \cstar-algebras provides great insight into compact Hausdorff spaces, and \v Cech--Stone remainders and their autohomeomorphisms in particular.
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spellingShingle Applications of the Gelfand--Naimark duality
Farah, Ilijas
Logic
Operator Algebras
Stone duality is an indispensable tool for the study of compact, zero-dimensional, Hausdorff spaces. In the case of general compact Hausdorff spaces one can get quite a bit of mileage by considering the `Wallman duality' between compact spaces and lattices of closed sets. I will argue that the Gelfand--Naimark duality between compact Hausdorff spaces and unital, commutative \cstar-algebras provides great insight into compact Hausdorff spaces, and \v Cech--Stone remainders and their autohomeomorphisms in particular.
title Applications of the Gelfand--Naimark duality
topic Logic
Operator Algebras
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10957