Classifying Spaces and the Baum-Connes Conjecture

The Baum-Connes conjecture identifies the K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of a group G with the equivariant K-theory of the classifying space for proper G-actions through a so-called assembly map from K-homology to K-theory. This classifying space is a proper G-space with the feature that any other proper G-space may be equivariantly mapped into it in a unique-up-to-equivariant-homotopy way. In many situations the classifying space for proper actions may be concretely identified. For example for a semisimple Lie group it is the symmetric space G/K and for a semisimple p-adic group it is the Bruhat-Tits affine building.

For discrete groups the classifying space for proper actions has been studied carefully from the point of view of equivariant homotopy theory, and this has led to knew views on the Baum-Connes assembly map in this case.

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