We provide sufficient conditions to factorise an equivariant spectral triple as a Kasparov product of unbounded classes constructed from the group action on the algebra and from the fixed point spectral triple. We show that if factorisation occurs, then the equivariant index of the spectral triple vanishes. Our results are for the action of compact abelian Lie groups, and we demonstrate them with examples from manifolds and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D703}$-deformations. In particular, we show that equivariant Dirac-type spectral triples on the total space of a torus principal bundle always factorise. Combining this with our index result yields a special case of the Atiyah–Hirzebruch theorem. We also present an example that shows what goes wrong in the absence of our sufficient conditions (and how we get around it for this example).

Let $G$ be a metrizable compact group, $A$ a separable ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebra, and $\alpha :G\,\to \,\text{Aut}\left( A \right)$ a strongly continuous action. Provided that $\alpha $ satisfies the continuous Rokhlin property, we show that the property of satisfying the $\text{UCT}$ in $E$-theory passes from $A$ to the crossed product ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebra $\mathcal{A}{{\rtimes }_{\alpha }}\,G$ and the fixed point algebra ${{A}^{\alpha }}$. This extends a similar result by Gardella for $KK$-theory in the case of unital ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebras but with a shorter and less technical proof. For circle actions on separable unital ${{\text{C}}^{*}}$-algebras with the continuous Rokhlin property, we establish a connection between the $E$-theory equivalence class of $A$ and that of its fixed point algebra ${{A}^{\alpha }}$.

We present a definition of spectral flow for any norm closed ideal J in any von Neumann algebra N. Given a path of selfadjoint operators in N which are invertible in N/J, the spectral flow produces a class in Ko(J).

Given a semifinite spectral triple (A, H, D) relative to (N, τ) with A separable, we construct a class [D] ∈ KK1(A, K(N)). For a unitary u ∈ A, the von Neumann spectral flow between D and u*Du is equal to the Kasparov product [u]A[D], and is simply related to the numerical spectral flow, and a refined C*-spectral flow.

We extend McClure's results regarding restriction maps in equivariant K-theory to bivariant K-theory:

Let G be a compact Lie group and A and B be G-C*-algebras. Suppose that KKHn(A, B) is a finitely generated R(G)-module for every H ≤ G closed and n ∈ ℤ. Then, if KKF*(A, B) = 0 for all F ≤ Gfinite cyclic, then KKG*(A, B) = 0.

A. Bonkat obtained a universal coefficient theorem in the setting of Kirchberg's ideal-related $KK$-theory in the fundamental case of a ${{C}^{*}}$-algebra with one specified ideal. The universal coefficient sequence was shown to split, unnaturally, under certain conditions. Employing certain $K$-theoretical information derivable from the given operator algebras using a method introduced here, we shall demonstrate that Bonkat's $\text{UCT}$ does not split in general. Related methods lead to information on the complexity of the $K$-theory which must be used to classify $*$-isomorphisms for purely infinite ${{C}^{*}}$-algebras with one non-trivial ideal.

Using the classical universal coefficient theorem of Rosenberg-Schochet, we prove a simple classification of all localizing subcategories of the Bootstrap category Boot ⊂ KK of separable complex C*-algebras. Namely, they are in a bijective correspondence with subsets of the Zariski spectrum Specℤ of the integers – precisely as for the localizing subcategories of the derived category D(ℤ) of complexes of abelian groups. We provide corollaries of this fact and put it in context with the similar classifications available in the literature.

We define generalized Atiyah-Patodi-Singer boundary conditions of product type for Dirac operators associated to C*-vector bundles on the product of a compact manifold with boundary and a closed manifold. We prove a product formula for the K-theoretic index classes, which we use to generalize the product formula for the topological signature to higher signatures.

Let G be a locally compact group and ρ a non-unitary finite dimensional representation of G. We consider tensor products of ρ by some unitary representations of G in order to define two Banach algebras analogous to the group C*-algebras, C*(G) and C*r(G). We calculate the K-theory of such algebras for a large class of groups satisfying the Baum-Connes conjecture.

This paper is comprised of two related parts. First we discuss which k-graph algebras have faithful traces. We characterise the existence of a faithful semifinite lower-semicontinuous gauge-invariant trace on C* (Λ) in terms of the existence of a faithful graph trace on Λ.

Second, for k-graphs with faithful gauge invariant trace, we construct a smooth (k,∞)-summable semifinite spectral triple. We use the semifinite local index theorem to compute the pairing with K-theory. This numerical pairing can be obtained by applying the trace to a KK-pairing with values in the K-theory of the fixed point algebra of the Tk action. As with graph algebras, the index pairing is an invariant for a finer structure than the isomorphism class of the algebra.

Let $A$ and $B$ be C*-algebras, with $A$ separable and $B$$\sigma$-unital and stable. It is shown that there are natural isomorphisms

$$ E(A,B) = KK(SA,Q(B)) = [SA,Q(B) \otimes K], $$

where $SA=C_0(0, 1) \otimes A$, $[\cdot, \cdot]$ denotes the set of homotopy classes of *-homomorphisms, $Q(B) = M(B) / B$ is the generalized Calkin algebra, and $K$ denotes the C*-algebra of compact operators of an infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert space.

We employ results from KK-theory, along with quasidiagonality techniques, to obtain wide-ranging classification results for nuclear C*-algebras. Using a new realization of the Cuntz picture of the Kasparov groups we show that two morphisms inducing equal KK-elements are approximately stably unitarily equivalent. Using K-theory with coefficients to associate a partial KK-element to an approximate morphism, our result is generalized to cover such maps. Conversely, we study the problem of lifting a (positive) partial KK-element to an approximate morphism. These results are employed to obtain classification results for certain classes of quasidiagonal C*-algebras introduced by H. Lin, and to reprove the classification of purely infinite simple nuclear C*-algebras of Kirchberg and Phillips. It is our hope that this work can be the starting point of a unified approach to the classification of nuclear C*-algebras.

2000 Mathematical Subject Classification: primary 46L35; secondary 19K14, 19K35, 46L80.