We show that the relative Farrell–Jones assembly map from the family of
finite subgroups to the family of virtually cyclic subgroups for algebraic
-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
-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.
Keywords
splitting relative $K$-theoretic assembly maps, rational
vanishing and Tate cohomology of the relative Nil-term