Cyclic cohomology of certain affine schemes (Q1084456): Difference between revisions

The cyclic cohomology of algebras was discovered by \textit{A. Connes} in the formulation of noncommutative differential geometry (1982-1983). In connection with algebraic or topological K-theory, the cyclic cohomology is quite useful also for the study of K-theory. In this paper the author obtains an important result on cyclic cohomology of certain affine schemes, i.e., cyclic cohomology of the commutative \({\mathbb{C}}\)-algebra \(A={\mathbb{C}}[x]/(f)\) associated with \(f\in {\mathbb{C}}[x]\) is \(H^{even}(A)\simeq {\mathbb{C}}^ m\), \(H^{odd}(A)\simeq 0\), where m is the number of mutually distinct roots of \(f=0\) in \({\mathbb{C}}\). This result is computed by making use of an explicitly constructed projective resolution.