Density of the self-adjoint elements with finite spectrum in an irrational rotation C*-algebra.
An exposition is given of recent work of the author and others on the differential calculi that occur in the setting of compact quantum groups. The principal topics covered are twisted graded traces, an extension of Connes' cyclic cohomology, invariant linear functionals on covariant calculi and the Hodge, Dirac and Laplace operators in this setting. Some new results extending the classical de Rham theorem and Poincaré duality are also discussed.
The differential calculus on 'non-standard' h-Minkowski spaces is given. In particular it is shown that, for them, it is possible to introduce coordinates and derivatives which are simultaneously hermitian.
An extension of the category of local manifolds is considered. Instead of smooth mappings of neighbourhoods of linear spaces as morphisms we deal with formal operator power series (or formal maps). Analogues of the objects appearing on smooth manifolds and vector bundles (vector fields, sections of a bundle, exterior forms, the de Rham complex, connection, etc.) are considered in this way. All the examinations are carried out in algebraic language, for we do not care about the convergence of formal...
We generalize the infinitesimal independence appearing in free probability of type B in two directions: to higher order derivatives and other natural independences: tensor, monotone and Boolean. Such generalized infinitesimal independences can be defined by using associative products of infinitely many linear functionals, and therefore the associated cumulants can be defined. These products can be seen as the usual natural products of linear maps with values in formal power series.
The Stinespring theorem is reformulated in terms of conditional expectations in a von Neumann algebra. A generalisation for map-valued measures is obtained.