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unusual facts about Gelfand


Gelfand

a Gelfand pair, a pair (G,K) consisting of a locally compact unimodular group G and a compact subgroup K


Alan Gelfand

In 2001 Gelfand raced in the Grand Am Cup behind the wheel of a 2000 model Porsche 986 Boxster.

Since 1995, Alan "Ollie" Gelfand loves to collect Vintage skateboards on eBay and sell parts for Volkswagen and Audi vehicles

Gelfand–Kirillov dimension

This leads to the definition of holonomic D-Modules as those with the minimal dimension n, and these modules play a great role in the geometric Langlands program.

Inner product space

The Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction is a particularly important example of the use of this technique.

Rigid analytic space

Vladimir Berkovich reformulated much of the theory of rigid analytic spaces in the late 1980s, using a generalization of the notion of Gelfand spectrum for commutative unital C*-algebras.


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