Trace formulas for almost commuting operators, cyclic cohomology and subnormal operators (Q1175036)

Starting from cyclic cohomology for the trace of the products of commutators and from relations between such traces some generalizations are given. By these means the following unitary invariant theorem for irreducible pure subnormal operators with minimal normal extension \(N\) is proven. If \([S^*,S]^{1/2}\) is of tract class, if the spectrum \(\sigma(S)\) is the closure of a simply connected domain with boundary \(\sigma(N)\) which is a rectifiable Jordan curve, and if \([S^*,S]\) has at least one simple positive eigenvalue, then \(\{\sigma(S),i(S)\}\) is a complete unitary invariant, where \(i(S)\) is the index of \(S^*-\bar wI\) for any \(w\in\sigma(S)\setminus\sigma(N)\).