The Connes-Kasparov conjecture for almost connected groups and for liner \(p\)-adic groups (Q1424082): Difference between revisions

Let \(G\) be a second countable locally compact group and let \(G_0\) be the connected component of the neutral element. It is proved that if \(G/G_0\) satisfies the Baum-Connes conjecture for arbitrary coefficients then \(G\) satisfies this conjecture for coefficients being the \(C^*\)-algebra of compact operators with an arbitrary action of \(G\). This implies that if \(G\) is a second countable almost connected group then it satisfies the Baum-Connes conjecture with trivial coefficients. The last conclusion is proved also for \(G\) being in the group of \(k\)-rational points of a linear algebraic group over a local field \(k\) of characteristic zero. As a corollary of the main result, it is shown that all square-integrable factor representations of a connected unimodular Lie group \(G\) are of type I and that \(G\) has no square-integrable factor representations if \(\dim(G/L)\) is odd, where \(L\subset G\) denotes the maximal compact subgroup.