Building on the theory of elliptic operators, we give a unified treatment of the following topics: - the problem of homotopy invariance of Novikov’s higher signatures on closed manifolds, - the problem of cut-and-paste invariance of Novikov’s higher signatures on closed manifolds, - the problem of defining higher signatures on manifolds with boundary and proving their homotopy invariance.

The non-commutative torus $C^{*}({\mathbb{Z}}^n,\omega )$ is realized as the $C^{*}$-algebra of sections of a locally trivial $C^{*}$-algebra bundle over $\widehat{S_{\omega }}$ with fibres isomorphic to $C^{*}({\mathbb{Z}}^n/S_{\omega },{\omega }_1)$ for a totally skew multiplier ${\omega }_1$ on ${\mathbb{Z}}^n/S_{\omega }$. D. Poguntke [9] proved that $A_{\omega }$ is stably isomorphic to $C\left(\widehat{S_{\omega }}\right)\otimes C^{*}({\mathbb{Z}}^n/S_{\omega },{\omega }_1)\cong C\left(\widehat{S_{\omega }}\right)\otimes A_{\varphi }\otimes M_{kl}\left(ℂ\right)$ for a simple non-commutative torus $A_{\varphi }$ and an integer $kl$. It is well-known that a stable isomorphism of two separable $C^{*}$-algebras is equivalent to the existence of equivalence bimodule between them. We construct an $A_{\omega }$-$C\left(\widehat{S_{\omega }}\right)\otimes A_{\varphi }$-equivalence bimodule.

We present the review of noncommutative symmetries applied to Connes' formulation of spectral triples. We introduce the notion of equivariant spectral triples with Hopf algebras as isometries of noncommutative manifolds, relate it to other elements of theory (equivariant K-theory, homology, equivariant differential algebras) and provide several examples of spectral triples with their isometries: isospectral (twisted) deformations (including noncommutative torus) and finite spectral triples.