Conjecture on the cyclic cohomology of the smooth dihedral group algebra

Let AA^{\infty} be the smooth subalgebra of the group CC^*-algebra associated with the group considered in the paper. For a cyclic cohomology degree nn, write HCn(A)HC^n(A^{\infty}) for the corresponding cyclic cohomology group.

Cyclic cohomology conjecture. The cyclic cohomology of AA^{\infty} is given by

HCn(A)={C3:neven, n20:nodd, n1HC^n(A^{\infty}) = \left\{ \begin{array}{cc} \mathbf{C}^3 &: n\,\,\text{even},\ n \geq 2\\ 0 &: n\,\,\text{odd},\ n \geq 1 \end{array} \right.

The conjecture asserts that the smooth subalgebra has three-dimensional even cyclic cohomology in degrees at least two and vanishing odd cyclic cohomology in positive degrees. The preceding discussion notes that the known degree-zero cocycles extend from the group ring, but that possible ghost cocycles could make the restriction map non-injective; the conjecture rules out additional cyclic cohomology of this kind.

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Tom Hadfield, “K-homology of certain group C*-algebras”, arXiv:math/0201094 (2002).

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