Towards a theory of classification (Q1043488)

The well-known classification program for \(C^*\)-algebras by the author overcomes known difficulties arising in classifications that are not set-theoretically trivial, when a quotient category fails to exist. His classification functor can be used to classify some interesting classes of \(C^*\)-algebras. In the paper under review the notion of a classification functor is developed abstractly, and a number of examples is considered.