Coarse quotients of metric spaces and embeddings of uniform Roe algebras (Q2697948)

Summary: We study embeddings of uniform Roe algebras which have ``large range'' in their codomain and the relation of those with coarse quotients between metric spaces. Among other results, we show that if \(Y\) has property A and there is an embedding \(\Phi : \mathrm{C}_u^{\ast} (X) \to \mathrm{C}_u^{\ast} (Y)\) with ``large range'' and so that \(\Phi (\ell_{\infty} (X))\) is a Cartan subalgebra of \(\mathrm{C}_u^{\ast} (Y)\), then there is a bijective coarse quotient \(X \to Y\). This shows that the large-scale geometry of \(Y\) is, in some sense, controlled by the one of \(X\). For instance, if \(X\) has finite asymptotic dimension, so does \(Y\).