| K-THEORY OF GROUP C* ALGEBRAS (AN INTRODUCTION TO K-THEORY AND THE BAUM-CONNES CONJECTURE) | |
| Topic: | Dirac Operator |
| Speaker: | Paul Baum |
| Affiliation: | IAS |
| Date: | Tuesday, December 7 |
| Time/Room: | 2:00pm - 3:00pm/S-101 |
A SpinC-manifold is a C\infty manifold with a given structure which is slightly stronger than an orientation. A Spin C manifold has a Dirac operator. This is a first order elliptic differential operator. The (equivariant) indices of these Dirac operators can be used to formulate BC for discrete groups.