Gel'fand Duality
- Series
- Geometry Topology Student Seminar
- Time
- Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 14:05 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 169
- Speaker
- Jonathan Paprocki – Georgia Tech
We will prove a duality between locally compact Hausdorff spaces and the C*-algebra of continuous complex-valued functions on that space. Formally, this is the equivalence of the opposite category of commutative C*-algebras and the category of locally compact Hausdorff spaces.