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In classical geometry, one studies geometric objects whose coordinates commute.

Noncommutative geometry is a mathematical theory specifically designed to study "geometric
objects" whose coordinates do not commute but which do occur naturally in mathematics and
physics. In the last decade or so, with the help of new ideas from noncommutative geometry,
great advances have been made towards the solutions of long-standing problems in classical
geometry and topology. K-theory, higher index theory, and secondary index theory serve as
bridges between noncommutative geometry and classical geometry and topology. The
principal investigator and his students plan to apply noncommutative geometry methods to
study problems in differential geometry and topology;The K-groups of certain operator
algebras are receptacles of higher indices and secondary index invariants of elliptic differential
operators and have important applications to problems in differential geometry and in the
topology of manifolds. Examples of such applications include estimation of the size of the
moduli space of all Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature and questions
concerning the rigidity or nonrigidity of a manifold. The principal investigator and his students
plan to apply the techniques of quantitative operator K-theory and dynamic complexity to
study K-theory of operator algebras, higher index theory, and secondary index theory. The
principal investigator and his students also intend to apply quantitative techniques to study
the isomorphism conjectures in algebraic K-theory.

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The principal investigator and his students plan to apply noncommutative geometry methods to
study problems in differential geometry and topology; The K-groups of certain operator algebras
are receptacles of higher indices and secondary index invariants of elliptic differential operators
and have important applications to problems in differential geometry and in the topology of
manifolds. The principal investigator and his students plan to apply the techniques of
quantitative operator K-theory and dynamic complexity to study K-theory of operator algebras,
higher index theory, and secondary index theory. The principal investigator and his students also
intend to apply quantitative techniques to study the isomorphism conjectures in algebraic K-
theory.
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The principal investigator and his students also intend to apply quantitative techniques to study
the isomorphism conjectures in algebraic K-theory.

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