The quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for free products

Jintao Deng, Ryo Toyota

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The quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture holds for the free product G * H if it holds for the groups G and H.

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Groups are algebraic objects with a multiplication operation. A free product of two groups G and H is a new group formed by taking all possible alternating products of elements from G and H with no extra relations imposed between them. The coarse Baum-Connes conjecture connects the K-theory of a group (an algebraic invariant) to the geometry of how the group acts on large-scale spaces. Its quantitative version adds control on the rates or bounds of this connection. The paper claims that if the quantitative version is true for G and for H separately, then it is also true for the combined free product group. This reduction is useful because many groups of interest in geometry and topology can be decomposed into free products of simpler pieces. Verifying the conjecture on basic building-block groups could therefore cover many more cases. The abstract gives no details on the proof techniques, any new tools introduced, or potential restrictions on the groups involved.

Core claim

We prove the quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for the free product G * H under the assumption that the conjecture holds for both G and H.

Load-bearing premise

The quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture holds for the individual finitely generated groups G and H.

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**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The subtree of depth n rooted at w ′G. Lemma 4.1. Let W ⊆ G∗H be any subset. If G and H satisfy the quantitative coarse Baum–Connes conjecture, then so does the family {π −1 (T w n )}w∈W for every n ∈ N. Proof. We prove this by induction. When n = 0, the statement is trivial since π −1 (T w n ) is either G or H. Assume the statement is true for n and prove it for n + 1. We denote S w 1 := {v ∈ T w n : dT (… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The decomposition π −1 (T w n ) = Y w 1 ∪ Y w 2 . Lemma 4.2. Let m, n be non-negative integers and W ⊂ G ∗ H. For each w ∈ W, we denote S w m,n := T w m+n \T w n . Then {π −1 (S w m,n)}w∈W satisfies the quantitative coarse Baum–Connes conjecture. Proof. By induction on n, we prove that for every m ∈ N, r0 > 0 and k0 > 0, there exist r ≥ r0 and k ≥ k0 such that the map Kε,r0 ∗ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: The decomposition π −1 (T w m) = (Nr(wG) \ wG) ∪ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_3.png] view at source ↗

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Let $G$ and $H$ be finitely generated groups. In this paper, we prove the quantitative coarse Baum--Connes conjecture for the free product $G* H$ under the assumption that the conjecture holds for both $G$ and $H$.

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Summary. The manuscript proves the quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for the free product G * H of two finitely generated groups G and H, assuming the conjecture holds for G and for H. The result is presented as a direct reduction that transfers the quantitative estimates from the factors to the free product without introducing circularity.

Significance. This conditional reduction is useful in geometric group theory and operator algebras, as it extends known cases of the quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture to free products once the base cases for G and H are established. The explicit assumption and non-circular nature of the argument are strengths, allowing the result to be applied whenever the conjecture is verified for the individual groups.

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our manuscript and the recommendation of minor revision. We are pleased that the conditional reduction for the quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture on free products is viewed as useful and non-circular.

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No significant circularity; standard conditional reduction

full rationale

The paper proves the quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture for the free product G*H assuming the conjecture holds for the individual finitely generated groups G and H. This is an explicit conditional theorem whose derivation reduces the statement for the combined group to the given assumptions on the factors via standard techniques in coarse geometry and operator algebras. No steps in the provided abstract or claim description involve self-definition, fitted inputs renamed as predictions, load-bearing self-citations, or imported uniqueness results; the central result is self-contained as a reduction and does not collapse to its inputs by construction.

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The central claim rests on the explicit domain assumption that the conjecture holds for G and H, together with standard background results in group theory, coarse geometry, and K-theory. No free parameters or invented entities are indicated in the abstract.

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domain assumption The quantitative coarse Baum-Connes conjecture holds for the groups G and H
This is the explicit hypothesis used to conclude the result for the free product G * H.

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