The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture for noncompact groups and spaces

Details The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture for noncompact groups and spaces The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture for noncompact groups and spaces

2005-12-08

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0512022v2

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Mathematical Physics

55 pages, small corrections and additions after referee reports, Appendix A shortened, Appendix B replaced by reference

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The Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture states that "quantisation commutes with reduction" in a specific technical setting. So far, this conjecture has almost exclusively been stated and proved for compact Lie groups $G$ acting on compact symplectic manifolds, and, largely due to the use of spin_c Dirac operator techniques, has reached a high degree of perfection under these compactness assumptions. In this paper we formulate an appropriate Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture in the general case, under the main assumptions that the Lie group action is proper and cocompact. This formulation is motivated by our interpretation of the "quantisation commuates with reduction" phenomenon as a special case of the functoriality of quantisation, and uses equivariant K-homology and the K-theory of the group C*-algebra C*(G) in a crucial way. For example, the equivariant index - which in the compact case takes values in the representation ring R(G) - is replaced by the analytic assembly map - which takes values in K_0(C*(G)) - familiar from the Baum-Connes conjecture in noncommutative geometry. Under the usual freeness assumption on the action, we prove our conjecture for all Lie groups G having a cocompact discrete normal subgroup, but we believe it is valid for all unimodular Lie groups.

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