Spaces of graphs, boundary groupoids and the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture

Abstract

We introduce a new variant of the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture designed to tackle coarsely disconnected metric spaces called the boundary coarse Baum–Connes conjecture. We prove this conjecture for many coarsely disconnected spaces that are known to be counterexamples to the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture. In particular, we give a geometric proof of this conjecture for spaces of graphs that have large girth and bounded vertex degree. We then connect the boundary conjecture to the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture using homological methods, which allows us to exhibit all the current uniformly discrete counterexamples to the coarse Baum–Connes conjecture in an elementary way.