The trace on the K-theory of group C^*-algebras

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-01-10711-4zbMATH Open1020.46023arXivmath/9907121MaRDI QIDQ1847809FDOQ1847809

Authors: Thomas Schick 

Publication date: 27 October 2002

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The canonical trace on the reduced C*-algebra of a discrete group gives rise to a homomorphism from the K-theory of this C^*-algebra to the real numbers. This paper addresses the range of this homomorphism. For torsion free groups, the Baum-Connes conjecture and Atiyah's L2-index theorem implies that the range consists of the integers. If the group is not torsion free, Baum and Connes conjecture that the trace takes values in the rational numbers. We give a direct and elementary proof that if G acts on a tree and admits a homomorphism alpha to another group H whose restriction to every stabilizer group of a vertex is injective, then the range of the trace for G, tr_G(K(C_r^*G)) is contained in the range of the trace for H, tr_H(K(C_r^*H)). This follows from a general relative Fredholm module technique. Examples are in particular HNN-extensions of H where the stable letter acts by conjugation with an element of H, or amalgamated free products G=H*_U H of two copies of the same groups along a subgroup U.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9907121

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zbMATH Keywords

\(K\)-theoryBaum-Connes conjecturereduced \(C^*\)-algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(C^*)-modules (46L08) (K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Index theory (19K56) Kasparov theory ((KK)-theory) (19K35)

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