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The Dennis Trace for Assembler K-Theory

Algebraic Topology 2026-07-27 v1

Abstract

We define a notion of Hochschild homology of a weak assembler and use it to construct a Dennis trace map from the group completion KK-theory of a weak assembler to its Hochschild homology. We compute the Hochschild homology for some examples, in particular for various cases of restricted polytopes. We also give an explicit description of the Dennis trace map at level 00, i.e. from the zeroth KK-theory group to the zeroth Hochschild homology group. Further, we show that the Dennis trace is a refinement of the trace/regulator map defined by Bohmann et al thus showing that group homology is a trace invariant.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.24945,
  title  = {The Dennis Trace for Assembler K-Theory},
  author = {Sanjana Agarwal and Ramyak Bilas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24945},
  year   = {2026}
}

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39 pages, comments welcome