Embeddability of generalized wreath products and box spaces

Abstract: Given two finitely generated groups that coarsely embed into a Hilbert space, it is known that their wreath product also embeds coarsely into a Hilbert space. We introduce a wreath product construction for general metric spaces X,Y,Z and derive a condition, called the (delta-polynomial) path lifting property, such that coarse embeddability of X,Y and Z implies coarse embeddability of X\wr_Z Y. We also give bounds on the compression of X\wr_Z Y in terms of delta and the compressions of X,Y and Z. Next, we investigate the stability of the property of admitting a box space which coarsely embeds into a Hilbert space under the taking of wreath products. We show that if an infinite finitely generated residually finite group H has a coarsely embeddable box space, then G\wr H has a coarsely embeddable box space if G is finitely generated abelian. This leads, in particular, to new examples of bounded geometry coarsely embeddable metric spaces without property A.