The Higson-Roe sequence for étale groupoids. I: Dual algebras and compatibility with the BC map (Q784873)

The paper is the first part of the series of articles [\textit{M.-T. Benameur} and \textit{I. Roy}, J. Noncommut. Geom. 14, No. 1, 25--71 (2020; Zbl 07227221); \textit{M.-T. Benameur} and \textit{I. Roy}, ``The Higson-Roe sequence for étale groupoids. II: The universal sequence for equivariant families'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1812.04371}]. It is well written, well documented and of huge interest in higher families index theory. The paper deals with the introduction of the dual Roe algebras for proper étale groupoid actions (see Section 2), and the study of some of its properties closely related to the Baum-Connes conjecture (see Section 3). More explicitly, the authors showed that, in the case where the action is co-compact, their groupoid is Morita equivalent to the Roe \(C^*\)-ideal of locally compact operators (Theorem 2.14), and established a Higson-Roe type short exact sequence and showed the compatibility of the connecting maps appearing in the associated periodic \(K\)-theory exact sequence (3.1) with the classical Baum-Connes assembly map (Theorem 3.3). The proof of Theorem 3.3 is an extension of the Roe proof of the theorem for discrete groups to the case of groupoids and Hilbert modules associated with groupoids; it uses Theorem 2.14 and properties of the Paschke-Higson map 3.1 (in the even and the odd cases). As a major consequence of Theorem 3.3 is that it relates the Baum-Connes conjecture for a locally compact (étale) groupoid \(G\) with a vanishing rigidity result. In Section 4, the authors explain rigorously how to associate with any \(G\)-equivariant Dirac-type family, a coarse index class; this generalizes the Paterson index class and also the Moore-Schochet-Connes index class for laminations.