Equivariant K-theory of real vector spaces and real vector bundles
Max Karoubi
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25 pages ; see also http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~karoubi/ One historical comment added in Jan. 2007 to this file : N. Kuhn has pointed out to me that the Baum-Connes-Slominska Chern character was described independently in his paper Character rings in algebraic topology, Advances in Homotopy Theory, Proceedings of Cortona 1988, LMS Lecture Note Series 139 (1989), 111--126. See in particular Theorem 6.4, which dates from 1986 and is closely related to the (then new) generalized character theory of Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel
发表信息：
Topology and its applications, 122, (2002) 531-456
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