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Groupoid cocycles and K-theory

K-Theory and Homology 2019-11-28 v4

Abstract

Let c:GRc:\mathcal{G}\to\R be a cocycle on a locally compact Hausdorff groupoid G\mathcal{G} with Haar system. Under some mild conditions (satisfied by all integer valued cocycles on \'{e}tale groupoids), cc gives rise to an unbounded odd R\R-equivariant bimodule (\mathpzcE,D)(\mathpzc{E},D) for the pair of CC^{*}-algebras (C(G),C(H))(C^{*}(\mathcal{G}),C^{*}(\mathcal{H})). If the cocycle comes from a continuous quasi-invariant measure on the unit space G(0)\mathcal{G}^{(0)}, the corresponding element in KK1R(C(G),C(H))KK_{1}^{\R}(C^{*}(\mathcal{G}),C^{*}(\mathcal{H})) gives rise to an index map K1R(C(G))\CK_{1}^{\R}(C^{*}(\mathcal{G}))\to \C.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3677,
  title  = {Groupoid cocycles and K-theory},
  author = {Bram Mesland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3677},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Update: proof of exactness of integral cocycles corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-21T15:25:32.853Z