Coarse quotients by group actions and the maximal Roe algebra

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For a finitely generated group [Formula: see text] acting on a metric space [Formula: see text], Roe defined the warped space [Formula: see text], which one can view as a kind of large scale quotient of [Formula: see text] by the action of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we generalize this notion to the setting of actions of arbitrary groups on large scale spaces. We then restrict our attention to what we call coarsely discontinuous actions by coarse equivalences and show that for such actions the group [Formula: see text] can be recovered as an appropriately defined automorphism group [Formula: see text] when [Formula: see text] satisfies a large scale connectedness condition. We show that for a coarsely discontinuous action of a countable group [Formula: see text] on a discrete bounded geometry metric space [Formula: see text] there is a relation between the maximal Roe algebras of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], namely that there is a ∗-isomorphism [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the ideal of compact operators. If [Formula: see text] has Property A and [Formula: see text] is amenable, then [Formula: see text] has Property A, and thus the maximal Roe algebra and full crossed product can be replaced by the usual Roe algebra and reduced crossed product respectively in the above equation.