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Inventiones Inventiones math, 35, 155-196 (1976) mathematicae 9 by Springer-Verlag 1976 Euler Characteristics and Characters of Discrete Groups Hyman Bass (New York)* To Jean-Pierre Serre Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 2. Hattori-Stallings Traces in T ( A ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 3. k-Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 4. Relation to Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 5. Group Algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 6. Subgroups of Finite Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 7. Characteristic p: Frobenius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 8. The Complex Group Algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 9. Non-Divisibility Conditions on G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 10. Euler Characteristics of Groups of Type ( F P ) . . . . . . . . . 190 1. Introduction This investigation began as an attempt to generalize to infinite groups the following theorem of Swan [26]. Theorem (Swan). Let P be a finitely generated projective module over the group ring 7lG of a finite group G. Then Q | P is a free QG-module. The conjectural generalisation consists in: (i) interpreting the theorem in terms of the character Zj, of P; (ii) introducing a notion of rank, r e, of P which, (a) makes