Gel'fand Duality

Series
Geometry Topology Student Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 169
Speaker
Jonathan Paprocki – Georgia Tech
Organizer
Meredith Casey
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.