Positive scalar curvature and low-degree group homology

DOI10.2140/AKT.2018.3.565zbMATH Open1395.58013arXiv1709.07216OpenAlexW3103923740MaRDI QIDQ723136FDOQ723136

Noé Bárcenas Torres, Rudolf Zeidler

Publication date: 30 July 2018

Published in: Annals of \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a discrete group. Assuming rational injectivity of the Baum-Connes assembly map, we provide new lower bounds on the rank of the positive scalar curvature bordism group and the relative group in Stolz' positive scalar curvature sequence for $mathrmBGamma$. The lower bounds are formulated in terms of the part of degree up to $2$ in the group homology of $Gamma$ with coefficients in the $mathbbCGamma$-module generated by finite order elements. Our results use and extend work of Botvinnik and Gilkey which treated the case of finite groups. Further crucial ingredients are a real counterpart to the delocalized equivariant Chern character and Matthey's work on explicitly inverting this Chern character in low homological degrees.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07216

zbMATH Keywords

group homologypositive scalar curvature\(\rho\)-invariantequivariant Chern charactersecondary index theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) Ext and (K)-homology (19K33) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Exotic index theories on manifolds (58J22) Equivariant (K)-theory (19L47) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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