Localization of the Riemann-Roch character (Q5957484)

The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture [\textit{V. Guillemin} and \textit{S. Sternberg}, Invent. Math. 67, 515-538 (1982; Zbl 0503.58018)] about the commutativity of geometric quantization and symplectic reduction, was proved by \textit{E. Meinrenken} [Adv. Math. 134, 240-277 (1998; Zbl 0929.53045)] and \textit{Y. Tian} and \textit{W. Zhang} [Invent. Math. 132, 229-259 (1998; Zbl 0944.53047)]. The present paper gives a \(K\)-theoretic approach to this conjecture, which provides a new proof of results obtained by Meinrenken and Tian-Zhang. Also, this new approach leads to a generalization for compact Lie group actions on manifolds that are not symplectic.