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Positive polynomials and product type actions of compact groups
About this Title
David Handelman
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
1985; Volume 54, Number 320
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2322-4 (print); 978-1-4704-0733-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0320
MathSciNet review: 783217
MSC: Primary 46L05; Secondary 16A54, 18F25, 19G99, 22E45, 47B99
Table of Contents
Chapters
- I. Orders in ordered rings
- II. Projectively faithful characters and orders
- III. Density of point evaluations in the pure state space
- IV. Extending states to the maximal torus
- V. Eventual polynomial positivity
- VI. Polynomial rings on polyhedra
- VII. Applications to fixed point algebras and crossed products