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Intruction to algebraic K-theory - NALG131
Title: Úvod do algebraické K-teorie
Guaranteed by: Department of Algebra (32-KA)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2011 to 2017
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Pavel Příhoda, Ph.D.
Classification: Mathematics > Algebra
Annotation -
Last update: T_KA (19.05.2010)
Algebraic K-theory assigns invariants to associative rings. Such or similar invariants are used in geometry, topology and functional analysis (C*-algebras).
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KA (19.05.2010)

The aim of this lecture is to introduce two basic constructions from K-theory, the groups K_0 and K_1.

Literature -
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J. Milnor: Introduction to algebraic K-theory, Princeton University Press, 1971

J. Rosenberg: Algebraic K-theory and its applications, Springer, 1994

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KA (19.05.2010)

1. Projective modules, Serre's problem, vector bundles and Swan's theorem.

2. Definition of K_0(R), calculation of K_0 of a Dedekind domain. A relation to the number theory - K_0 of an integral group algebra of a cyclic group and the ideal class group of a cyclotomic field.

3. Definition of K_1, some explicit computations.

4. Other invariants studied in algebraic K-theory.

5. Applications. Whitehead groups, homology, C*-algebras.

 
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