Conference abstracts
Session S08 - Lie Groups and Representations
July 28, 18:30 ~ 18:50
K-groups in the theory of symmetric spaces
Wend Werner
Münster University, Germany - wwerner@uni-muenster.de
The structure of symmetric spaces is very well encoded into an algebraic structure closely related to C*-algebras. Using this relationship to define K-theory for (hermitian, non-compact) symmetric spaces permits to replace root systems by K-groups in their classification. Classification beyond well-known results exist for inductive limits.
Joint work with Dennis Bohle (Amsterdam).