If there is a mathematician eagerly waiting for the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva to start up next year, it is Alain Connes of the Collège de France in Paris. Like many physicists, Connes hopes that the Higgs particle will show up in detectors. The Higgs is the still missing crowning piece of the so-called Standard Model--the theoretical framework that describes subatomic particles and thei...

We apply the classical technique on cyclic objects of Alain Connes to various objects, in particular to the higher Chow complex of S. Bloch to prove a Connes periodicity long exact sequence involving motivic cohomology groups. The Cyclic higher Chow groups and the Connes higher Chow groups of a variety are defined in the process and various properties of them are deduced from the known properti...

Differential structure of a d-dimensional lattice, which essentially is a noncommutative exterior algebra, is defined using both reductions in 1-order plus 2-order of universal differential calculus in the context of NCG developed by Dimakis et al , and the formalism adopting a Dirac-Connes operator proposed by us recently within Connes’ NCG. Metric structure on this lattice and on differential...

Leptin’s theorem asserts that a locally compact group is amenable if and only if its Fourier algebra has a bounded (by one) approximate identity. In the language of locally compact quantum groups—in the sense of J. Kustermans and S. Vaes—, it states that a locally compact group is amenable if and only if its quantum group dual is co-amenable. It is an open problem whether this is true for gener...

this paper continues the investigation of the rst author begun in part one. the hereditary properties of n-homomorphism amenability for banach algebras are investigated and the relations between n-homomorphism amenability of a banach algebra and its ide- als are found. analogous to the character amenability, it is shown that the tensor product of two unital banach algebras is n-homomorphism am...

This paper continues the investigation of the rst author begun in part one. The hereditary properties of n-homomorphism amenability for Banach algebras are investigated and the relations between n-homomorphism amenability of a Banach algebra and its ideals are found. Analogous to the character amenability, it is shown that the tensor product of two unital Banach algebras is n-homomorphism amena...

We discuss some techniques related to equivariant compactifications of uniform spaces and amenability of topological groups. In particular, we give a new proof of a recent result by Glasner and Weiss describing the universal minimal flow of the infinite symmetric group S∞ with the standard Polish topology, and extend Bekka’s concept of an amenable representation, enabling one to deduce non-amen...

The article is a survey related to classical unsolved problem in Banach space theory, appearing Banach’s famous book 1932, and known as the Mazur rotations problem. Although seems very difficult rather abstract, its study sheds new light on importance of norm symmetries space, demonstrating sometimes unexpected connections with renorming theory differentiability functional analysis, topological...