TY - BOOK AU - Goodearl,K.R. AU - Handelman,D.E. AU - Lawrence,J.W. TI - Affine Representations of Grothendieck Groups and Applications to Rickart C*-Algebras and Aleph O-Continuous Regular Rings T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society SN - 9781470406387 AV - QA251.5 -- .G66 1980eb U1 - 510 s;512/.4 PY - 1980/// CY - Providence PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Associative rings KW - Grothendieck groups KW - Representations of groups KW - C*-algebras KW - Von Neumann regular rings KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Partially Ordered Abelian Groups with Countable Interpolation -- I.1. Interpolation and Countable Interpolation -- I.2. State Spaces -- I.3. Projection Bases -- I.4. Dedekind ℵ…Complete Lattice…Ordered Groups -- I.5. Archimedean Groups -- I.6. Norm-Completeness -- I.7. Quotient Groups, Directed Convex Subgroups, and Closed Faces -- I.8. Compact Sets of Extreme States -- I.9. The Affine Function Representations -- II. ℵ…Continuous Regular Rings -- II.10. K[sub(O)] of Unit-Regular Rings -- II.11. ℵ…Continuity -- II.12. Countable Interpolation -- II.13. Compact Subsets of P(R) -- II.14. Comparability -- II.15. The Affine Function Representation of K[sub(O)](R) -- III. Finite Rickart C*-Algebras -- III.16. Matrix Rings -- III.17. Hormorphic Images -- IV. Examples -- References -- Index of Definitions UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3113651 ER -