Let be a field. We show that every countable subgroup of is uniformly embeddable in a Hilbert space. This implies that Novikov’s higher signature conjecture holds for these groups. We also show that every countable subgroup of admits a proper, affine isometric action on a Hilbert space. This implies that the Baum-Connes conjecture holds for these groups. Finally, we show that every subgroup of is exact, in the sense of -algebra theory.
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Guentner, Erik; Higson, Nigel; Weinberger, Shmuel. The Novikov conjecture for linear groups. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Volume 101 (2005), pp. 243-268. doi : 10.1007/s10240-005-0030-5. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.1007/s10240-005-0030-5/
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