Introduction to the Baum-Connes conjecture / Alain Valette.

The Baum-Connes conjecture is part of A. Connes' non-commutative geometry programme. It can be viewed as a conjectural generalisation of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, to the equivariant setting (the ambient manifold is not compact, but some compactness is restored by means of a proper, co-co...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Valette, Alain
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Basel : Springer Basel AG, ©2002.
Series:	Lectures in mathematics ETH Zürich.
Subjects:	Baum-Connes conjecture. KK-theory. Noncommutative differential geometry.