Sh. Ayupov - Böcker

This text develops an approach to the study of infinite-dimensional Jordan and Lie algebras and real associative *-algebras of operators on a Hilbert space. All these algebras are canonically generated by involutive antiautomorphisms of von Neumann algebras. The first purpose of the book is to study the deep structure theory for Jordan operator algebras similar to (complex) von Neumann algebras theory, such as type classification, traces, conjugacy of automorphisms and antiautomorphisms, injectivity, amenability, and semidiscreteness. The second aim is to investigate pure algebraic problems concerning Jordan and Lie structure in prime and simple rings with involution in the frame work of operator algebras. These pure algebraic results give additional information on properties of single operators on a Hilbert space.

This volume presents the lectures given during the Second French-Uzbek Colloquium on Algebra and Operator Theory which took place in Tashkent in 1997, at the Mathematical Institute of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. Among the algebraic topics discussed here are deformation of Lie algebras, cohomology theory, the algebraic variety of the laws of Lie algebras, Euler equations on Lie algebras, Leibniz algebras, and real K-theory. Some contributions have a geometrical aspect, such as supermanifolds. The papers on operator theory deal with the study of certain types of operator algebras. The volume also contains a detailed introduction to the theory of quantum groups. This book is intended for graduate students specializing in algebra, differential geometry, operator theory, and theoretical physics, and for researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics.

This book develops a new approach to the study of infinite-dimensional Jordan and Lie algebras and real associative *-algebras of operators on a Hilbert space. All these algebras are canonically generated by involutive antiautomorphisms of von Neumann algebras. The first purpose of the book is to study the deep structure theory for Jordan operator algebras similar to (complex) von Neumann algebras theory, such as type classification, traces, conjugacy of automorphisms and antiautomorphisms, injectivity, amenability, and semidiscreteness. The second aim is to investigate pure algebraic problems concerning Jordan and Lie structure in prime and simple rings with involution in the frame work of operator algebras. These pure algebraic results give additional information on properties of single operators on a Hilbert space. Audience: This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and specialists in the field of operator algebras, and algebraists whose work involves nonassociative and infinite-dimensional rings.