Handelman, D.E.

Positive Polynomials and Product Type Actions of Compact Groups. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (97 pages) - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; v.54 . - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society .

Intro -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- I. Orders in ordered rings -- II. Projectively faithful characters and orders -- III. Density of point evaluations in the pure state space -- IV. Extending states via the maximal torus -- V. Eventual polynomial positivity -- VI. Polynomial rings on polyhedra -- VII. Applications to fixed point algebras and crossed products.

9781470407339


C*-algebras.
Rings (Algebra).
Representations of groups.
K-theory.
Compact groups.
Polynomials.


Electronic books.

QA326 -- .H363 1985eb

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