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Regular boundary conditions and analytic K-homology
Abstract
In their seminal work, Baum-Douglas-Taylor showed that under a certain compactness assumption, local boundary conditions for first-order elliptic operators over compact manifolds with boundary define cycles for relative K-homology. Using a systematic approach to regular boundary conditions, we generalize their result to elliptic operators of arbitrary order and to non-compact manifolds with potentially non-compact boundary. In addition, we show that under stronger regularity conditions, local boundary conditions even define cycles for absolute K-homology. In contrast to the relative classes, the resulting absolute K-homology classes are in general not independent of the choice of boundary condition.
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BibTeX
@misc{engel2026regular,
title = {{Regular boundary conditions and analytic K-homology}},
author = {Alexander Engel and Matti Lyko},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.02899},
eprint = {2610.02899},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02899},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Regular boundary conditions and analytic K-homology
AU - Alexander Engel
AU - Matti Lyko
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.02899
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02899
AB - In their seminal work, Baum-Douglas-Taylor showed that under a certain compactness assumption, local boundary conditions for first-order elliptic operators over compact manifolds with boundary define cycles for relative K-homology. Using a systematic approach to regular boundary conditions, we generalize their result to elliptic operators of arbitrary order and to non-compact manifolds with potentially non-compact boundary. In addition, we show that under stronger regularity conditions, local boundary conditions even define cycles for absolute K-homology. In contrast to the relative classes, the resulting absolute K-homology classes are in general not independent of the choice of boundary condition.
ER -