Bass's conjecture for fields of characteristic zero

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Let FF be a field of characteristic zero and GG a group. Let class⁡F(G)f\operatorname{class}_F(G)_f denote the indicated FF-vector space of finite conjugacy classes, and let HS⁡FG\operatorname{HS}_{FG} be the Hattori–Stallings homomorphism. Bass's conjecture. The map

HS⁡FG ⁣:K0(FG)⊗ZF⟶class⁡F(G)f\operatorname{HS}_{FG}\colon K_0(FG)\otimes_{\mathbb Z}F\longrightarrow \operatorname{class}_F(G)_f

is an isomorphism. This is another formulation of the Bass conjecture, relating projective modules over a group ring to class functions. The source records substantial special cases, but does not state a general resolution.

References

Primary source

Arthur Bartels, Wolfgang Lueck and Holger Reich, “On the Farrell-Jones Conjecture and its applications”, arXiv:math/0703548 (2007).

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