Compléments à la démonstration de la conjecture de Baum-Connes pour certains groupes possédant la propriété (T) (Q4254366)

Let \(G\) be a group which is locally compact, Hausdorff and second countable. The group \(C^*\)-algebra, denoted \(C^*(G)\), is the enveloping \(C^*\)-algebra of the convolution algebra \(L_1(G)\). The reduced \(C^*\)-algebra of \(G\), denoted \(C^*_{\text{red}}(G)\), is the completion of \(L_1(G)\) in its regular representation as bounded operators on \(L_2(G)\). The Baum-Connes conjecture for torsion-free groups is the following: if \(G\) is a discrete and torsion-free group then the Baum-Connes assembly map \(\mu_{\text{red}}: K_*(BG)\to K_* (C^*_{\text{red}}(G))\) is an isomorphism. The main purpose of the previous paper [\textit{V. Lafforgue}, ``Une démonstration de la conjecture de Baum-Connes pour les groupes réductifs sur un corps \(p\)-adique et pour certains groupes discrets possédant la propriété \((T)\)'', C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 327, No. 5, 439-444 (1998; Zbl 0911.46042)] was to prove this conjecture for reductive \(p\)-adic groups and for cocompact discrete subgroupes of \(Sp(n,1)\), \(SL_3(\mathbb{Q}_p)\), \(SL_3(\mathbb{R})\), satisfying Kazhdan's property \((T)\). In the reviewed article the \(K\)-theoretic techniques concerning the properties of a special bivariant \(K_G\)-functor \(KK^{ban}_{G,N_s}(A,B)\) for Banach algebras is developed and the proof of the Connes-Kasparov conjecture for semi-simple Lie groups is presented. Essentially the main result of the paper is the following: let \(G\) be a locally compact group, \(X\) be a complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with non-positive bounded below sectional curvatur equipped with a continuous isometric and proper action of \(G\), \(\gamma\in KK_G({\mathcal C}, {\mathcal C})\) be the special Kasparov element, then \(\gamma\) and 1 have the same image in \(KK^{ban}_{G,N_s} ({\mathcal C}, {\mathcal C})\) for any \(s>0\). The Connes-Kasparov conjecture for semi-simple Lie groups is consequence of this fact and some results of the previous paper.