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Splitting the relative assembly map, nil-terms and involutions. (English) Zbl 1409.18014

Summary: We show that the relative Farrell-Jones assembly map from the family of finite subgroups to the family of virtually cyclic subgroups for algebraic \(K\)-theory is split injective in the setting where the coefficients are additive categories with group action. This generalizes a result of Bartels for rings as coefficients. We give an explicit description of the relative term. This enables us to show that it vanishes rationally if we take coefficients in a regular ring. Moreover, it is, considered as a \(\mathbb Z[\mathbb Z/2]\)-module by the involution coming from taking dual modules, an extended module and in particular all its Tate cohomology groups vanish, provided that the infinite virtually cyclic subgroups of type I of G are orientable. The latter condition is for instance satisfied for torsionfree hyperbolic groups.

MSC:

18F25 Algebraic \(K\)-theory and \(L\)-theory (category-theoretic aspects)
19A31 \(K_0\) of group rings and orders
19B28 \(K_1\) of group rings and orders
19D35 Negative \(K\)-theory, NK and Nil