Coronae of product spaces and the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture (Q2344268)

In this paper, the authors extend their study of the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture [\textit{T. Fukaya} and \textit{S.-I. Oguni}, J. Topol. Anal. 4, No. 1, 99--113 (2012; Zbl 1251.58008)] of relatively hyperbolic groups to a larger class of groups. A motivating question for the paper is whether or not the coarse Baum-Connes property of a finitely generated group is closed under finite products. The main result of the paper is concerned with proving the coarse Baum-Connes property for finite products of \(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\)-groups, hyperbolic groups, polycyclic groups and groups hyperbolic relative to the a collection of groups of the type above. A crucial technical result states that for proper complete metric spaces \(X_1,\ldots, X_n\) with coronas \(\partial X_1,\ldots, \partial X_n\) the joint \(X_1*\cdots* \partial X_n\) is a corona of \(X_1\times\cdots\times X_n\).