The class of a fibre in noncommutative geometry (Q2302523)

Let \((\Gamma , Z)\) be a smooth and \(d\)-dimensional \(K\)-oriented group (Definition 2.1), namely a discrete group \(\Gamma\) acts on a smooth, proper \(\Gamma\)-equivariantly \(K\)-oriented cocompact \(\Gamma\)-compact \(d\)-dimensional manifold \(Z\) which is \(H\)-equivariantly contractible for every compact subgroup \(H\) of \(\Gamma\). Assume that the group \(\Gamma\) acts \(KK\)-orientably (Definition 5.5) on a smooth compact oriented \(n\)-dimensional manifold \(X\), namely the transformation groupoid \(E\Gamma \rtimes \Gamma\) acts \(K\)-orientably on \(E\Gamma \times X\). In this paper, the author mainly defines the Dirac class for \(\Gamma \ltimes X\) : \([\widehat{\Gamma \ltimes X}] \in \mathrm{KK}^{\Gamma}_{d-n}(C_{0}(X) , \mathbb{C})\) (Definition 6.1). The well-known deformation of the Doulbeault operator on the noncommutative torus and the class of the boundary extension of a hyperbolic group are examples of the author's Dirac class. The author also proves the intersection index formula (Theorem 8.16) for the Dirac class.