Table of Contents

I. Cyclic Theory, Bivariant K-Theory and the Bivariant Chern-Connes Character by J. Cuntz: 1. Cyclic Theory; 2. Cyclic Theory for Locally Convex Algebras; 3. Bivariant K-Theory; 4. Infinite-Dimensional Cyclic Theories; A. Locally Convex Algebras; B. Standard Extensions.- II. Noncommutative Geometry, the Transverse Signature Operator, and Hopf Algebras (after A. Connes and H. Moscovici) by G. Skandalis: 1. Preliminaries; 2. The Local Index Formula; 3. The Diff-Invariant Signature Operator; 4. The 'Transverse' Hopf Algebra.- III. Cyclic Homology by B. Tsygan: 1. Introduction; 2. Hochschild and Cyclic Homology of Algebras; 3. The Cyclic Complex C^{lambda}_{bullet}; 4. Non-Commutative Differential Calculus; 5. Cyclic Objects; 6. Examples; 7. Index Theorems; 8. Riemann-Roch Theorem for D-Modules.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This volume of the ‘Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences’ is a very important and useful contribution to the literature on cyclic homology and noncommutative geometry. … This book contains three expository articles, covering very important recent results." (Alexander Gorokhovsky, Mathematical Reviews, 2005 k)