KK-groups of crossed products by groups acting on trees (Q1099377)

This paper reexpresses the KK-groups of the full and reduced crossed products by G, G being a locally compact, second countable topological group acting continuously on some tree X, in terms of the KK-groups of the crossed products by the stabilizer subgroups corresponding to the action of G on X. This is done by exhibiting six terms cyclic exact sequences for the KK-groups of the crossed products. The paper begins with a brief analysis of actions of groups on trees, and then the computation of the KK-groups of the Toeplitz algebras is carried out. It is finally observed that the total Toeplitz extensions (corresponding to all edges of the fundamental domain of the tree X) play a distinguished role, and that it is enough to treat only this case.