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Higher Index Theorems and the Boundary Map in Cyclic Cohomology Doc Math J DMV Higher Index Theorems and the Boundary Map in Cyclic Cohomology Victor Nistor Received June Communicated by Joachim Cuntz Abstract We show that the ChernConnes character induces a natural transformation from the six term exact sequence in lower algebraic K Theory to the p erio dic cyclic homology exact sequence obtained by Cuntz and Quillen and we argue that this amounts to a general higher index theorem In order to compute the b oundary map of the p erio dic cyclic cohomology exact sequence we show that it satises prop erties similar to the prop erties satised by the b oundary map of the singular cohomology long exact sequence As an application we obtain a new pro of of the Connes Moscovici index theorem for coverings Mathematics Sub ject Classication Primary K Secondary D L G Key Words cyclic cohomology algebraic K theory index morphism etale group oid higher index theorem Contents Introduction Index theorems and Algebraic K Theory Pairings with traces and a Fedosov type formula Higher traces and excision in cyclic cohomology An abstract higher index theorem Pro ducts and the b oundary map in p erio dic cyclic cohomology Cyclic vector spaces Extensions of algebras and pro ducts Prop erties of the b oundary map Relation to the bivariant ChernConnes character The index theorem for coverings Group oids and the cyclic cohomology of their algebras Morita invariance and coverings The AtiyahSinger exact sequence The ConnesMoscovici exact sequence and pro of of the theorem References 1 Partially supp orted by NSF grant DMS a NSF Young Investigator Award DMS and a Sloan Research Fellowship Documenta Mathematica Victor Nistor Introduction Index theory and K Theory have b een close sub jects since their app earance Several recent index theorems that have found applications to Novikovs Conjecture use algebraic K Theory in an essential way as a natural target for the generalized indices that they compute Some of these generalized indices are von Neumann dimensionslike in the L index theorem for coverings that roughly sp eaking computes the trace of the pro jection on the space of solutions of an elliptic dier ential op erator on a covering space The von Neumann dimension of the index do es not fully recover the information contained in the abstract ie algebraic K Theory index but this situation is remedied by considering higher traces as in the Connes Moscovici Index Theorem for coverings Since the app earance of this theorem index theorems that compute the pairing b etween higher traces and the K Theory class of the index are called higher index theorems In a general higher index morphism ie a bivariant character was dened for a class of algebrasor more precisely for a class of extensions of algebrasthat is large enough to accommo date most applications However the index theorem proved there was obtained only under some fairly restrictive conditions to o restrictive for most applications In this pap er we completely remove these restrictions using a recent breakthrough result of Cuntz and Quillen In Cuntz and Quillen have shown that p erio dic cyclic homology denoted HP satises excision and hence that any twosided ideal I of a complex algebra A gives rise to a p erio dic sixterm exact sequence HP A HP AI HP I O o o HP AI HP A HP I similar to the top ological K Theory exact sequence Their result generalizes earlier results from See also If M is a smo oth manifold and A C M then HP A is isomorphic to the de Rham cohomology of M and the ChernConnes character on algebraic K Theory generalizes the ChernWeil construction of characteristic classes using connection and curvature In view of this result the excision prop erty equation gives more evidence that p erio dic cyclic homology is the right extension of de Rham homology from smo oth manifolds to algebras Indeed if I A is the ideal of functions vanishing on a closed submanifold N M then HP I H M N DR and the exact sequence for continuous p erio dic cyclic homology coincides with the exact sequence for de Rham cohomology This result extends to not necessarily smo oth complex ane algebraic varieties The central result of this pap er Theorem Section states that the Chern Connes character alg A HP A ch K i i where i is a natural transformation from the six term exact sequence in lower algebraic K Theory to the p erio dic cyclic homology exact sequence In this Documenta Mathematica Higher Index Theorems formulation Theorem generalizes the corresp onding result for the Chern character on the K Theory of compact top ological spaces thus extending the list of common features of de Rham and cyclic cohomology The new ingredient in Theorem b esides the naturality of the ChernConnes character is the compatibility b etween the connecting or index morphism in alge braic K Theory and the b oundary map in the CuntzQuillen exact sequence Theo rem Because the connecting morphism alg alg Ind K AI K I asso ciated to a twosided ideal I A generalizes the index of Fredholm op erators Theorem can b e regarded as an abstract higher index theorem and the com putation of the b oundary map in the p erio dic cyclic cohomology exact sequence can b e regarded as a cohomological index formula We now describ e the contents of the pap er in more detail If is a trace on the twosided ideal I A then induces a morphism alg K I C More generally one canand has toallow to b e a higher trace while still getting alg a morphism K I C Our main goal in Section is to identify as explicitly alg as p ossible the comp osition Ind K AI C For traces this is done in Lemma which generalizes a formula of Fedosov In general Ind where HP I HP AI is the b oundary map in p erio dic cyclic cohomology Since is dened purely algebraically it is usually easier to compute it than it is to alg I is not known in many interesting compute Ind not to mention that the group K situations which complicates the computation of Ind even further In Section we study the prop erties of and show that is compatible with various pro duct type op erations on cyclic cohomology The pro ofs use cyclic vector spaces and the external pro duct studied in which generalizes the cross pro duct in singular homology The most imp ortant prop erty of is with resp ect to the tensor pro duct of an exact sequence of algebras by another algebra Theorem We also show that the b oundary map coincides with the morphism induced by the o dd bivariant character constructed in whenever the later is dened Theorem As an application in Section we give a new pro of of the ConnesMoscovici index theorem for coverings The original pro of uses estimates with heat kernels Our pro of uses the results of the rst two sections to reduce the ConnesMoscovici index theorem to the AtiyahSinger index theorem for elliptic op erators on compact manifolds The main results of this pap er were announced in and a preliminary version of this pap er has b een circulated as Penn State preprint no PM March Although this is a completely revised version of that preprint the pro ofs have not b een changed in any essential way However a few related preprints and pap ers have app eared since this pap er was rst written they include I would like to thank Joachim Cuntz for sending me the preprints that have lead to this work and for several useful discussions Also I would like to thank the Documenta Mathematica Victor Nistor Mathematical Institute of Heidelb erg University for hospitality while parts of this manuscript were prepared and to the referee for many useful comments Index theorems and Algebraic K Theory alg alg We b egin this section by reviewing the denitions of the groups K and K and of alg alg the index morphism Ind K AI K I asso ciated to a twosided ideal I A There are easy formulas that relate these groups to Ho chschild homology and we review those as well Then we prove an intermediate result that generalizes a formula of Fedosov in our Ho chschild homology setting which will serve b oth as a lemma in the pro of of Theorem and as a motivation for some of the formalisms developed in this pap er The main result of this section is the compatibility b etween the connecting or index morphism in algebraic K Theory and the b oundary morphism in cyclic cohomology Theorem An equivalent form of Theorem states that the Chern Connes character is a natural transformation from the six term exact sequence in algebraic K Theory to p erio dic cyclic homology These results extend the results in in view of Theorem All algebras considered in this pap er are complex algebras Pairings with traces and a Fedosov type formula It will b e conve alg nient to dene the group K A in terms of idemp otents e M A that is in terms of matrices e satisfying e e Two idemp otents e and f are called equivalent in writing e f if there exist x y such that e xy and f y x The direct sum of two idemp otents e and f is the matrix e f with e in the upp erleft corner and f in the lowerright corner With the directsum op eration the set of equivalence classes alg A is of idemp otents in M A b ecomes a monoid denoted P A The group K dened to b e the Grothendieck group asso ciated to the monoid P A If e M A alg is an idemp otent then the class of e in the group K A will b e denoted e Let A C b e a trace We extend to a trace M A C still denoted P by the formula a a If e f then e xy and f y x for some ij ii i x and
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