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            | Guyan Robertson Tiling systems and homology of lattices in tree products |  | 
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                | Published: | December 14, 2005 |  
                | Keywords: | tree products, lattices, homology, K-theory, operator algebra |  
                | Subject: | 22E40, 22D25 |  |  | 
 |  | Abstract 
			      
Let Γ be a torsion-free cocompact lattice in Aut(T1) × Aut(T2),
where  T1,  T2 are trees whose vertices all have degree at least three.
The group H2(Γ, Z) is determined explicitly in terms of an associated
2-dimensional tiling system. 
It follows that under appropriate conditions the crossed product C*-algebra  A associated with the action of Γ on the boundary of  T1×T2 satisfies rank K0(A) = 2⋅rank H2(Γ, Z).
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			  | Author information School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle, NE1 7RU, U.K.a.g.robertson@newcastle.ac.uk
 
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