Generalized Burghelea Conjecture

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Let GG be a discrete group. For an element xx in GG, let GxG_x denote its centralizer, let Nx=Gx/⟨x⟩N_x=G_x/\langle x\rangle be the reduced centralizer, and let ⟨G⟩∞{\langle G\rangle}^{\infty} denote the set of conjugacy classes of elements of infinite order. The group T∗(x,Q)T_*(x,\mathbb Q) is the term associated to an infinite-order conjugacy class in the periodic cyclic homology decomposition of QG\mathbb QG. Generalized Burghelea Conjecture. For every x∈⟨G⟩∞x\in{\langle G\rangle}^{\infty}, one has

T∗(x,Q)=0.T_*(x,\mathbb Q)=0.

The conjecture asserts the vanishing of the infinite-order contributions in Burghelea's computation of the periodic cyclic homology of a group algebra. The source paper constructs a finitely generated group that does not satisfy the Burghelea conjecture, so this statement is refuted in the generality given here.

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A. Dranishnikov and M. Hull, “A finitely generated group that does not satisfy the generalized Burghelea Conjecture”, arXiv:1701.03165 (2019).

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