Date of Award

Summer 8-15-2022

Document Type

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Department or Program

Mathematics

First Advisor

Erik van Erp

Second Advisor

Dana Williams

Third Advisor

Jody Trout

Abstract

This thesis proves a general Thom Isomorphism in groupoid-equivariant KK-theory. Through formalizing a certain pushforward functor, we contextualize the Thom isomorphism to groupoid-equivariant representable K-theory with various support conditions. Additionally, we explicitly verify that a Thom class, determined by pullback of the Bott element via a generalized groupoid homomorphism, coincides with a Thom class defined via equivariant spinor bundles and Clifford multiplication. The tools developed in this thesis are then used to generalize a particularly interesting equivalence of two Thom isomorphisms on TX, for a Riemannian G-manifold X.

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