TITLE: Searching for $C^*$
QUESTION [12 upvotes]: I am trying to search on MathSciNet for articles which contains $C^*$ in their title (as in $C^*$-algebras) however I can't figure out how to get MathSciNet not to interpret the '*' as a stand in for an arbitrary sequence of characters.
(I am moving this question from MathStackExchange as no one there seemed to have an answer.)

REPLY [5 votes]: MR often encodes the star with \ast. Searching for that in the title gives 4618 hits, not all of which have to do $\mathrm C^\ast$-algebras; searching for C adj2 \ast or C adj6 \ast still gives 1943 (resp. 1973), almost all of which seem relevant.