Download or read book Operator Algebras and Applications written by Aristides Katavolos and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the August 1996 conference contain the 15 contributions of the main speakers. Themes include operator spaces; abstract operator algebras and their Hilbert modules; interaction with ring theory; non-self-adjoint operator algebras (limit algebras, reflexive algebras and subspaces, relations to basis theory); C*- algebraic quantum groups; endomorphisms of operator algebras, conditional expectations and projection maps; and applications, particularly to wavelet theory. A special lecture given by Stelios Negrepontis on the Pythagoreans is also presented. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR