{ "id": "math/0209088", "version": "v1", "published": "2002-09-09T12:46:55.000Z", "updated": "2002-09-09T12:46:55.000Z", "title": "E-theory is a special case of KK-theory", "authors": [ "Vladimir Manuilov", "Klaus Thomsen" ], "comment": "22 pages, LaTeX", "categories": [ "math.OA" ], "abstract": "Let A and B be $C^*$-algebras, A separable, and B $\\sigma$-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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2002-09-09T12:46:55.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "special case", "natural isomorphisms", "homotopy classes", "generalized calkin algebra", "compact operators" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 22, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2002math......9088M" } } }