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Maximal and reduced Roe algebras of coarsely embeddable spaces ˇ ´ Jan Spakula and Rufus Willett September 11, 2010 Abstract In [7], Gong, Wang and Yu introduced a maximal, or universal, version of the Roe C -algebra as- sociated to a metric space. We study the relationship between this maximal Roe algebra and the usual version, in both the uniform and non-uniform cases. The main result is that if a (uniformly discrete, bounded geometry) metric space X coarsely embeds in a Hilbert space, then the canonical map be- tween the maximal and usual (uniform) Roe algebras induces an isomorphism on K -theory. We also give a simple proof that if X has property A, then the maximal and usual (uniform) Roe algebras are the same. These two results are natural coarse-geometric analogues of certain well-known implications of a-T-menability and amenability for group C -algebras. The techniques used are E -theoretic, building on work of Higson-Kasparov-Trout [12], [11] and Yu [28]. MSC: primary 46L80. 1 Introduction Say G is a second countable, locally compact group, and C G, C G are respectively its maximal max and reduced group C -algebras. One then has the following theorem of Hulanicki [13]. Theorem 1.1. G is amenable if and only if the canonical quotient map : C G C G is an