Idempotents in the Reduced C ∗ -Algebra of a Free Group

DOI10.2307/2046852zbMath0668.46028OpenAlexW2826756228MaRDI QIDQ3821139

Joel M. Cohen, Alessandro Figà-Talamanca

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2046852

zbMATH Keywords

reduced \(C^*\)-algebrasimple \(C^*\)-algebranon-commutative differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05)

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