Crossed product approach to equivariant localization algebras

Abstract: The goal of this article is to provide a bridge between the gamma element method for the Baum--Connes conjecture (the Dirac dual-Dirac method) and the controlled algebraic approach of Roe and Yu (localization algebras). For any second countable, locally compact group G, we study the reduced crossed product algebras of the representable localization algebras for proper G-spaces. We show that the naturally defined forget-control map is equivalent to the Baum--Connes assembly map for any locally compact group G and for any coefficient G-C*-algebra B. We describe the gamma element method for the Baum--Connes conjecture from this controlled algebraic perspective. As an application, we extend the recent new proof of the Baum--Connes conjecture with coefficients for CAT(0)-cubical groups to the non-cocompact setting.