Using asymptotic morphisms between graded C * -algebras, we construct for every open m-dimensional spin manifold M a fundamental class in the m-th analytic K -homology group of M. This class is associated to the not necessarily essentially self-adjoint Dirac operator on M. A careful treatment is given of the main properties of these fundamental K -homology classes.
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