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Mario Velásquez

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arXiv2025

On the group cohomology of groups of the form $\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/m$ with $m$ square-free

We provide an explicit computation of the cohomology groups (with untwisted coefficients) of semidirect products of the form $\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/m$ with $m$ free of squares, by means of formulas that only depend on $n$, $m$ and the action of $\mathbb{Z}/m$ on $\mathbb{Z}^n$. We want to highlight the fact that we are not impossing any conditions on the $\mathbb{Z}/m$-action on $\mathbb{Z}^n$, and as far as we know our formulas are the first in the literature in this generality. This generalizes previous computations of Lück-Davis and Adem-Ge-Pan-Petrosyan. In order to show that our formulas are usable, we develop a concrete example of the form $\mathbb{Z}^5\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/6$ where its cohomology groups are described in full detail.

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arXiv2024

On the $K$-theory of groups of the form $\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/m$ with $m$ square-free

We provide an explicit computation of the topological $K$-theory groups $K_*(C_r^*(\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes \mathbb{Z}/m))$ of semidirect products of the form $\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes \mathbb{Z}Z/m$ with $m$ square-free. We want to highlight the fact that we are not impossing any conditions on the $\Z/m$-action on $\mathbb{Z}^n$. This generalizes previous computations of Lück-Davis and Langer-Lück.

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arXiv2024

Proper actions and decompositions in equivariant K-theory

In this paper we study a natural decomposition of $G$-equivariant $K$-theory of a proper $G$-space, when $G$ is a Lie group with a compact normal subgroup $A$ acting trivially. Our decomposition could be understood as a generalization of the theory known as Mackey machine under suitable hypotheses, since it decomposes $G$-equivariant K-theory in terms of twisted equivariant K-theory groups respect to some subgroups of $G/A$. Similar decompositions were known for the case of a compact Lie group acting on a space, but our main result applies to discrete, linear and almost connected groups. We also apply this decomposition to study equivariant $K$-theory of spaces with only one isotropy type. We provide a rich class of examples in order to expose the strength and generality of our results. We also study the decomposition for equivariant connective $K$-homology for actions of compact Lie groups using a suitable configuration space model, based on previous papers published by the third author.

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arXiv2022

A Fixed Point Decomposition of Twisted Equivariant K-Theory

We present a decomposition of rational twisted $G$-equivariant K-theory, $G$ a finite group, into cyclic group equivariant K-theory groups of fixed point spaces. This generalises the untwisted decomposition by Atiyah and Segal as well as the decomposition by Adem and Ruan for twists coming from group cocycles.

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arXiv2021

Hecke operators in Bredon (co)homology, K-(co)homology and Bianchi groups

In this article we provide a framework for the study of Hecke operators acting on the Bredon (co)homology of an arithmetic discrete group. Our main interest lies in the study of Hecke operators for Bianchi groups. Using the Baum-Connes conjecture, we can transfer computations in Bredon homology to obtain a Hecke action on the $K$-theory of the reduced $C^{*}$-algebra of the group. We show the power of this method giving explicit computations for the group $SL_2(\mathbb{Z}[i])$. In order to carry out these computations we use an Atiyah-Segal type spectral sequence together with the Bredon homology of the classifying space for proper actions.

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arXiv2020

The topological K-theory of crystallographic groups with holonomy $\mathbb{Z}/2$

In this note we present a complete computation of the topological K-theory of the reduced C*-algebra of a semidirect product of the form $Γ=\mathbb{Z}^n\rtimes_ρ\mathbb{Z}/2$ with no further assumptions about of the conjugacy action $ρ$. For this, we use some results for $\mathbb{Z}/2$-equivariant K-theory proved by Rosenberg and previous results of Davis and Luck when the conjugacy action $ρ$ is free outside the origin.

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arXiv2019

Induced character in equivariant K-theory and wreath products

Let $G$ be a finite group, $X$ be a compact $G$-space. In this note we study the $(\mathbb{Z}_ + \times\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$-graded algebra $$\mathcal{F}^q_G(X) = \bigoplus_{n\geq0} q^n \cdot K_{G\wr\mathfrak{S}_n}(X^n)\otimes\mathbb{C},$$ defined in terms of equivariant K-theory with respect to wreath products as a symmetric algebra. More specifically, let $H$ be another finite group and $Y$ be a compact $H$-space, we give a decomposition of $\mathcal{F}^q_{G\times H}(X\times Y)$ in terms of $\mathcal{F}^q_G(X)$ and $\mathcal{F}^q_H(Y)$. For this, we need to study the representation theory of pullbacks of groups. We discuss also some applications of the above result to equivariant connective K-homology.

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arXiv2017

The algebraic and topological K-theory of the Hilbert Modular Group

In this paper we provide descriptions of the Whitehead groups with coefficients in a ring of the Hilbert modular group and its reduced version, as well as for the topological K-theory of $C^*$-algebras, after tensoring with $\mathbb{Q}$, by computing the source of the assembly maps in the Farrell-Jones and the Baum-Connes conjecture respectively. We also construct a model for the classifying space of the Hilbert modular group for the family of virtually cyclic subgroups.

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arXiv2016

Multiplicative Structures and the Twisted Baum-Connes Assembly map

Using a combination of Atiyah-Segal ideas on one side and of Connes and Baum-Connes ideas on the other, we prove that the Twisted geometric K-homology groups of a Lie groupoid have an external multiplicative structure extending hence the external product structures for proper cases considered by Adem-Ruan in [1] or by Tu,Xu and Laurent-Gengoux in [24]. These Twisted geometric K-homology groups are the left hand sides of the twisted geometric Baum-Connes assembly maps recently constructed in [9] and hence one can transfer the multiplicative structure via the Baum-Connes map to the Twisted K-theory groups whenever this assembly maps are isomorphisms.

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