Homotopy theory and C algebras are central to contemporary mathematics. This book introduces a modern homotopy theory for C -algebras that uses the concept of merging C -algebras and spaces studied in algebraic topology into one category comprising C -spaces.

Homotopy theory and C* algebras are central topics in contemporary mathematics. This book introduces a modern homotopy theory for C*-algebras. One basic idea of the setup is to merge C*-algebras and spaces studied in algebraic topology into one category comprising C*-spaces. These objects are suitable fodder for standard homotopy theoretic moves, leading to unstable and stable model structures. With the foundations in place one is led to natural definitions of invariants for C*-spaces such as homology and cohomology theories, K-theory and zeta-functions. The text is largely self-contained. It serves a wide audience of graduate students and researchers interested in C*-algebras, homotopy theory and applications.

First account of the homotopy theoretic viewpoint of C*-algebras encoded in the notion of a C*-space Unifies two separate mathematical topics Opens up for a whole host of new research problems Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
Homotopy theory and C*-algebras are central topics in contemporary mathematics. This book introduces a modern homotopy theory for C*-algebras. One basic idea of the setup is to merge C*-algebras and spaces studied in algebraic topology into one category comprising C*-spaces. These objects are suitable fodder for standard homotopy theoretic moves, leading to unstable and stable model structures. With the foundations in place one is led to natural definitions of invariants for C*-spaces such as homology and cohomology theories, K-theory and zeta-functions. The text is largely self-contained. It serves a wide audience of graduate students and researchers interested in C*-algebras, homotopy theory and applications.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Preliminaries.- 2.1 C*-spaces.- 2.2 G C*-spaces.- 2.3 Model categories.- 3 Unstable C*-homotopy theory.- 3.1 Pointwise model structures.- 3.2 Exact model structures.- 3.3 Matrix invariant model structures.- 3.4 Homotopy invariant model structures.- 3.5 Pointed model structures.- 3.6 Base change.- 4 Stable C*-homotopy theory.- 4.1 C*-spectra.- 4.2 Bispectra.- 4.3 Triangulated structure.- 4.4 Brown representability.- 4.5 C*-symmetric spectra.- 4.6 C*-functors.- 5 Invariants.- 5.1 Cohomology and homology theories.- 5.2 KK-theory and the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum.- 5.3 HL-theory and the Eilenberg-MacLane .- 5.4 The Chern-Connes-Karoubi character.- 5.5 K-theory of C*-algebras.- 5.6 Zeta functions.- 6 The slice filtration.- References.- Index.