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Serre-Swan theorem (Theorem)

Let $X$ be a compact Hausdorff space. Let $\mathcat{Vec}(X)$ be the category of complex vector bundles over $X$ . And, let $\mathcat{ProjMod}(C(X))$ be the category of finitely generated projective modules over the $C^*$ -algebra $C(X)$ . There is a functor $\Gamma\colon \mathcat{Vec}(X) \to \mathcat{ProjMod}(C(X))$ which sends each complex vector bundle $E \to X$ to the $C(X)$ -module $\Gamma(X,E)$ of continuous sections.

The functor $\Gamma$ is an equivalence of categories.




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Cross-references: equivalence of categories, sections, continuous, functor, finitely generated projective modules, vector bundles, complex, category, Hausdorff space, compact
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This is version 2 of Serre-Swan theorem, born on 2003-02-26, modified 2004-04-16.
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AMS MSC46L85 (Functional analysis :: Selfadjoint operator algebras :: Noncommutative topology)

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