2 papers
math.OA2005
The coarse geometric Novikov conjecture and uniform convexity
Gennadi Kasparov, Guoliang Yu
The coarse geometric Novikov conjecture provides an algorithm to determine when the higher index of an elliptic operator on a noncompact space is nonzero. The purpose of this paper…
math.AG2004
Groups acting properly on "bolic" spaces and the Novikov conjecture
Gennadi Kasparov, Georges Skandalis
We introduce a class of metric spaces which we call "bolic". They include hyperbolic spaces, simply conneccted complete manifolds of nonpositive curvature, euclidean buildings, etc…