Finitely summable Fredholm modules for boundary actions of hyperbolic groups

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Authors Heath Emerson, Bogdan Nica

Publication date 3 August 2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34)

Abstract: We construct a family of odd, finitely summable Fredholm modules over the crossed product C*-algebra $$ associated to the action of a non-elementary hyperbolic group $G$ on its Gromov boundary $$. These Fredholm modules all represent the same, distinguished class in K-homology, namely that of the `boundary extension' of $$ associated to the Gromov compactification of $G$, and is typically nonzero. Their summability is closely related to the Hausdorff dimension of the boundary. We use these results to compute the Connes-Chern character of the boundary extension in cyclic cohomology.

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