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Baum-Connes and the Fourier-Mukai transform

K-Theory and Homology 2020-07-29 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

The Baum-Connes map for finitely generated free abelian groups is a K-theoretic analogue of the Fourier-Mukai transform from algebraic geometry. We describe this K-theoretic transform in the language of topological correspondences, and compute its action on K-theory (of tori) described geometrically in terms of Baum-Douglas cocycles, showing that the Fourier-Mukai transform maps the class of a subtorus to the class of a suitably defined dual torus. We deduce the Fourier-Mukai inversion formula. We use these results to give a purely geometric description of the Baum-Connes assembly map for free abelian groups.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06124,
  title  = {Baum-Connes and the Fourier-Mukai transform},
  author = {Heath Emerson and Dan Hudson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06124},
  year   = {2020}
}

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