Equivariant Euler characteristics and K -homology Euler classes for proper cocompact G-manifolds

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  • Wolfgang Lück
  • Jonathan Rosenberg
چکیده

Let G be a countable discrete group and let M be a smooth proper cocompact G-manifold without boundary. The Euler operator defines via Kasparov theory an element, called the equivariant Euler class, in the equivariant KO -homology of M. The universal equivariant Euler characteristic of M, which lives in a group UG(M), counts the equivariant cells of M , taking the component structure of the various fixed point sets into account. We construct a natural homomorphism from UG(M) to the equivariant KO -homology of M. The main result of this paper says that this map sends the universal equivariant Euler characteristic to the equivariant Euler class. In particular this shows that there are no “higher” equivariant Euler characteristics. We show that, rationally, the equivariant Euler class carries the same information as the collection of the orbifold Euler characteristics of the components of the L-fixed point sets ML, where L runs through the finite cyclic subgroups of G. However, we give an example of an action of the symmetric group S3 on the 3-sphere for which the equivariant Euler class has order 2, so there is also some torsion information. AMS Classification numbers Primary: 19K33

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تاریخ انتشار 2002