Dualities in equivariant Kasparov theory (Q634439)

KK-theory was introduced by \textit{G. G. Kasparov} in 1980. This famous theory is one of the most strong instruments in topological algebras. Furthermore, KK-theory is very useful and effective to characterize the structure of \(C^*\)-algebras. The paper studies several duality isomorphisms between equivariant bivariant K-theory groups, generalizing Kasparov's first and second Poincaré duality isomorphisms. Firstly, the paper introduces some preparatory remarks on groupoids, their actions on spaces or \(C^*\)-algebras and equivariant Kasparov theory for groupoids in Section 2 and 3. Next, Section 4 deals with the first Poincaré duality isomorphism and some related constructions. Section 5 studies Kasparov duality for bundles of compact spaces. Section 6 introduces symmetric Kasparov duals. In the last section, the author constructs symmetric Kasparov duals for bundles of smooth manifolds with boundary. The two duality isomorphisms in the paper are related to the dual Dirac method and Baum-Connes conjecture. The new results of the paper are very meaningful.