Higher genera for proper actions of Lie groups. II: The case of manifolds with boundary (Q831454)

This is the second part of the authors' work devoted to the study of higher \(C^{\ast}\)-indices on \(G\)-proper manifolds and to the related notion of higher genera. Let \(G\) be a finitely connected Lie group and \(K\) a maximal compact subgroup. Let \(M\) be a cocompact \(G\)-proper manifold with boundary, endowed with a \(G\)-invariant metric which is of product type near the boundary. Under additional assumptions on \(G\), for example that \(G\) satifies the rapid decay conditon and is such that \(G/K\) has nonpositive sectional curvature, the authors establish a higher \(C^{\ast}\)-Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index formula and use it to introduce higher genera for \(M\), thus generalizing to manifolds with boundary their results in Part I [the authors, ibid. 4, No. 3, 473--504 (2019; Zbl 1430.58016)]. The results apply in particular to a semisimple Lie group \(G\).