K-theory and operator algebras : proceedings of a conference held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, April 21-25, 1975 / B. B. Morrel and I. M. Singer

Table of Contents: Bernard Morrel and I. M. Singer, Preface (p. iii); Conference participants (p. vi); M. F. Atiyah, A survey of K-theory (pp. 1–9); Lawrence G. Brown, Characterizing Ext(X) (pp. 10–18); Richard W. Carey and Joel D. Pincus, Almost commuting algebras (pp. 19–43); R. G. Douglas, Extensions of C∗-algebras and K-homology (pp. 44–52); Karl Heinrich Hofmann, Bundles and sheaves are equivalent in the category of Banach spaces (pp. 53–69); Jerome Kaminker and Claude Schochet, Topological obstructions to perturbations of pairs of operators (pp. 70–77); Ronnie Lee and R. H. Szczarba, On algebraic K-theory and the homology of congruence subgroups (pp. 78–87); Dusa MacDuff, Configurations spaces (pp. 88–95); Carl Pearcy and Norberto Salinas, Extensions of C∗-algebras and the reducing essential matricial spectra of an operator (pp. 96–112); Graeme Segal, K-homology theory and algebraic K-theory (pp. 113–127); I. M. Singer, Some remarks on operator theory and index theory (pp. 128–138); Masamichi Takesaki, Factors of type III (pp. 139–156); Joseph L. Taylor, Twisted products of Banach algebras and third Čech cohomology (pp. 157–174); J. B. Wagoner, H-cobordisms, pseudo-isotopies, and analytic torsion (pp. 175–191).