Proof.Since is a proper embedding, a compactly supported section over can be restricted to obtain a compactly supported section over , as well as over and over .
Namely, there is a diagram among spaces of compactly supported sections
By inspection, the bottom horizontal sequence is a fiber sequence, as is the right vertical sequence, as is the diagonal sequence.
Also, the inner square is pullback because is a pushout.
Because is equipped with a regular neighborhood, these fiber sequences are in fact Serre fibration sequences, and so the inner square is a weak homotopy pullback square.
In particular, there is a right homotopy coherent action of on , a left homotopy coherent action of on , and a continuous map of topological spaces
(7)
from the balanced homotopy coinvariants.
Because is -connective and is -dimensional, the base is connected.
It follows that the map (7) is in fact a weak homotopy equivalence.
The assertion follows after the canonical identification as group-like -spaces.