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Vladimir Manuilov

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Balanced pairs of operators and their relative index

We show that the K_1 group of a C*-algebra $A$ can be defined as homotopy classes of pairs, called balanced, of not necessarily unitary matrices over $A$ that have equal defects from being unitary. We also consider pairs of order zero pseudodifferential operators, not necessarily elliptic, with symbols being a balanced pair. A relative index is defined for such pairs of operators and it equals the topological index of the pair of their symbols.

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Vector bundles from generalized pairs of cocycles

It is interesting to know, how far we can generalize the notion of a group-valued cocycle keeping the property to determine a bundle. We find a generalization for pairs of cocycles and show how these generalized pairs of cocycles can still determine vector bundles.

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Extensions of Hilbert C*-modules: classification in simple cases

Theory of extensions of Hilbert C*-modules was developed by D. Bakic and B. Guljas. An easy observation shows that in the case, when the underlying C*-algebra extension is commutative and the Hilbert C*-modules are projective of finite type, the algebraic properties of the corresponding Busby invariant allow to identify extensions with isometric maps of the corresponding vector bundles. When the Hilbert C*-modules are free of rank one, we evaluate the set of extensions in topological terms.

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Shape theory and extensions of C*-algebras

Let $A$, $A'$ be separable $C^*$-algebras, $B$ a stable $σ$-unital $C^*$-algebra. Our main result is the construction of the pairing $[[A',A]]\times\operatorname{Ext}^{-1/2}(A,B)\to\operatorname{Ext}^{-1/2}(A',B)$, where $[[A',A]]$ denotes the set of homotopy classes of asymptotic homomorphisms from $A'$ to $A$ and $\operatorname{Ext}^{-1/2}(A,B)$ is the group of semi-invertible extensions of $A$ by $B$. Assume that all extensions of $A$ by $B$ are semi-invertible. Then this pairing allows us to give a condition on $A'$ that provides semi-invertibility of all extensions of $A'$ by $B$. This holds, in particular, if $A$ and $A'$ are shape equivalent. A similar condition implies that if $\operatorname{Ext}^{-1/2}$ coincides with $E$-theory (via the Connes-Higson map) for $A$ then the same holds for $A'$.

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On C*-algebras related to constrained representations of a free group

We consider representations of the free group $F_2$ on two generators such that the norm of the sum of the generators and their inverses is bounded by $μ\in[0,4]$. These $μ$-constrained representations determine a C*-algebra $A_μ$ for each $μ\in[0,4]$. We prove that these C*-algebras form a continuous bundle of C*-algebras over $[0,4]$ and calculate their K-groups.

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Semi-invertible extensions of C*-algebras

We prolonge the list of C*-algebras for which all extensions by any stable separable C*-algebra are semi-invertible. In particular, we handle certain amalgamations, both of C*-algebras and of groups. Concerning groups we consider both reduced and full group C*-algebras.

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On Almost Representations of Property (T) Groups

Property (T) for groups means a dichotomy: a representation either has an invariant vector or all vectors are far from being invariant. We show that, under a stronger condition of A.Zuk, a similar dichotomy holds for almost representations as well.

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The group of unital $C^*$-extensions

Let $A$ and $B$ be separable $C^*$-algebras, $A$ unital and $B$ stable. It is shown that there is a natural six-terms exact sequence which relates the group which arises by considering all semi-split extensions of $A$ by $B$ to the group which arises by restricting the attention to \emph{unital} semi-split extensions of $A$ by $B$. The six-terms exact sequence is an unpublished result of G. Skandalis.

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E-theory is a special case of KK-theory

Let A and B be $C^*$-algebras, A separable, and B $σ$-unital and stable. It is shown that there are natural isomorphisms $E(A,B)=KK(SA,Q(B))=[SA,Q(B)\otimes K]$, where $SA=C_0(0,1)\otimes A$, $[\cdot,\cdot]$ denotes the set of homotopy classes of *-homomorphisms, $Q(B) = M(B)/B$ is the generalized Calkin algebra and K denotes the $C^*$-algebra of compact operators.

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