Workshop

Geometric Chern characters in p-adic equivariant K-theory

  • Thomas Schick
E1 05 (Leibniz-Saal)

Abstract

Totally disconnected groups play an important role for arithmetic questions, in particular groups like Sln(Qp). They have nice actions on their Bruhat-Tits building (with the special property that the orbits are discrete). Among the important invariants of such actions are the equivariant K-theory and equivariant K-homology, closely related also to the representation theory of these groups. For example, the equivariant K-homology of the Bruhat-Tits building features as the left hand side of the Baum-Connes conjecture for Sln(Qp).
Chern characters are an important tool for the computation of these equivariant K-theory groups. We present a new and very geometric construction of an equivariant Chern character, taking values in a suitably defined Alexander-Spanier cohomology. It takes values in an equivariant version of Alexander-Spanier cohomology. As a main result we prove that this Chern character is an isomorphism after tensor product with the complex numbers.

Antje Vandenberg

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail

Alexandra Linde

Augsburg University Contact via Mail

Christian Bär

Potsdam University

Bernhard Hanke

Augsburg University

Anna Wienhard

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Burkhard Wilking

University of Münster