On Complex Manifolds and Observable Schemes

Abstract

We work out the construction of a Stein manifold from a commutative Arens-Michael algebra, under assumptions that are mild enough for the process to be useful in practice. Then, we do the passage to arbitrary complex manifolds by proposing a suitable notion of scheme. We do this in the abstract language of spectral functors, in view of its potential usefulness in non-commutative geometry.