Isometries of noncommutative metric spaces
Author:
Efton Park
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 97-105
MSC:
Primary 46L85
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1213868-4
MathSciNet review:
1213868
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Abstract: A. Connes has shown that a unital 
-algebra equipped with an unbounded Fredholm module can be viewed as a "noncommutative" metric space. In this paper, the author defines a notion of an isometry of a noncommutative metric space, and computes several examples.
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1995-1213868-4
Keywords:
Noncommutative topology,
noncommutative geometry,
automorphisms of 
-algebras
Article copyright:
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American Mathematical Society
