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Duality pairings with the analytic structure group

K-Theory and Homology 2025-06-17 v1

Abstract

We construct a slant product SpG×H(X×Y)Kq(cˉredYH)Kpq(CGX)\mathrm{S}^{G\times H}_p(X\times Y)\otimes \mathrm{K}_{-q}(\bar{\mathfrak{c}}^{\mathrm{red}} Y\rtimes H)\to \mathrm{K}_{p-q}(\mathrm{C}^\ast_G X) on the analytic structure group of Higson and Roe and the K-theory of the stable Higson compactification taking values in the (equivariant) Roe algebra. This complements the slant products constructed in earlier work of Engel and the authors ( arXiv:1909.03777 [math.KT] ). The distinguishing feature of our new slant product is that it specializes to a duality pairing SpH(Y)Kp(cˉred(Y)H)Z\mathrm{S}^H_p(Y) \otimes \mathrm{K}_{-p}(\bar{\mathfrak{c}}^{\mathrm{red}} (Y)\rtimes H)\to \mathbb{Z} which can be used to extract numerical invariants out of elements in the analytic structure group such as rho-invariants associated to positive scalar curvature metrics.

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@article{arxiv.2506.13703,
  title  = {Duality pairings with the analytic structure group},
  author = {Christopher Wulff and Rudolf Zeidler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.13703},
  year   = {2025}
}

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33 pages

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