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These notes are based on a lecture course given by the first author in the Sedano Winter School on K theory held in Sedano, Spain, on January 22,27th of 2007. They aim at introducing K theory of C*algebras, equivariant K homology and KK-theory in the context of the Baum Connes conjecture.
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- Abelian Group
- Discrete Group
- Proper Action
- Chern Character
- Hilbert Module
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Baum, P.F., Sánchez-García, R.J. (2011). K-Theory for Group C∗-algebras. In: Topics in Algebraic and Topological K-Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2008. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15708-0_1
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