Unitary Conjugation Groupoid Conjecture

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Let AA be a separable unital C∗C^*-algebra, and let GA\mathcal{G}_A be its unitary conjugation groupoid, with unit space

GA(0)≅A^,\mathcal{G}_A^{(0)}\cong\widehat{A},

where A^\widehat{A} consists of irreducible representations up to unitary equivalence. Assume the associated groupoid C∗C^*-algebra has the Morita equivalence

C∗(GA)∼MA⊗K.C^*(\mathcal{G}_A)\sim_M A\otimes\mathcal{K}.

Unitary Conjugation Groupoid Conjecture. There exists a natural assembly map

μGA:KGA∗(GA(0))⟶K∗(C∗(GA))\mu_{\mathcal{G}_A}:K^*_{\mathcal{G}_A}(\mathcal{G}_A^{(0)})\longrightarrow K_*(C^*(\mathcal{G}_A))

which is an isomorphism for a large class of C∗C^*-algebras, including all nuclear C∗C^*-algebras with Cartan subalgebras and all crossed products C(X)⋊ΓC(X)\rtimes\Gamma with Γ\Gamma satisfying the Baum–Connes conjecture.

Under the Morita identification K∗(C∗(GA))≅K∗(A)K_*(C^*(\mathcal{G}_A))\cong K_*(A), this predicts that the analytic KK-theory of AA can be recovered from equivariant topological data associated with the unitary conjugation groupoid. The source presents this as a conjectural framework and gives no resolution status.

References

Primary source

Shih-Yu Chang, “The Unitary Conjugation Groupoid as a Universal Mediator of the Baum–Connes Assembly Map”, arXiv:2603.22162 (2026).

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