Let be a semisimple complex algebraic group and its flag variety. Let and let be its enveloping algebra. Let be a Cartan subalgebra of . For , let be the corresponding minimal primitive ideal, let , and let be the Hattori-Stallings trace. Results of Hodges suggest to study this map as a step towards a classification, up to isomorphism or Morita equivalence, of the -algebras . When is regular, Hodges has shown that . In this case is generated by the classes corresponding to...