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## Idea

For a given manifold $X$ a Baum-Douglas geoemtric cycle on $X$ is data consisting of a submanifold $Q \hookrightarrow X$ carrying a vector bundle $E\to X$ such that this represents a class in K-homology under a suitable equivalence relation.

Viewed as a correspondence of the form

$X \stackrel{}{\leftarrow} (Q,E) \to \ast$

a Baum-Douglas geometric cycle is a special case of the spans that represent classes in KK-theory (between manifolds) according to (Connes-Skandalis 84, section 3).

## References

The general idea of geometric cycles for homology theories goes back to

The original articles by Baum and Douglas are

• Paul Baum, R. Douglas, K-homology and index theory: Operator Algebras and Applications (R. Kadison editor), volume 38 of Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Math., 117-173,

Providence RI, 1982. AMS.

• Paul Baum, R. Douglas. Index theory, bordism, and K-homology, Contemp. Math. 10: 1-31 1982.

The proof that these geometric cycles indeed model all of K-homology is due to

A generalization to geometric (co)-cocycles for KK-theory is in section 3 of

and for equivariant KK-theory in

For further such generalizations see at bivariant cohomology theory.

Generalization to twisted K-homology is in

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