A finite-dimensional approach to the strong Novikov conjecture
A finite-dimensional approach to the strong Novikov conjecture
复制标题
强诺维科夫猜想的有限维方法
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2012
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Guoliang Yu
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
D. Ramras;R. Willett;Guoliang Yu
The aim of this paper is to describe an approach to the (strong) Novikov conjecture based on continuous families of finite-dimensional representations: this is partly inspired by ideas of Lusztig related to the Atiyah‐Singer families index theorem, and partly by Carlsson’s deformation K‐theory. Using this approach, we give new proofs of the strong Novikov conjecture in several interesting cases, including crystallographic groups and surface groups. The method presented here is relatively accessible compared with other proofs of the Novikov conjecture, and also yields some information about the K‐theory and cohomology of representation spaces. 19K56, 19L99, 55N15, 57R20; 20C99, 46L80, 46L85