The fundamental group of the von Neumann algebra of a free group with infinitely many generators is ...
The fundamental group of the von Neumann algebra of a free group with infinitely many generators is ...
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具有无限多个生成元的自由群的冯诺依曼代数的基本群是......
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Florin R Adulescu
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Florin R Adulescu
In this paper we show that the fundamental group F of the von Neumann algebra L(F 1) of a free (noncommutative) group with innnitely many generators is R + nf0g. This extends the result of D. Voiculescu who previously proved ((26], 27]) that Q + nf0g is contained in F. This solves a classical problem in the harmonic analysis of the free group F 1. In particular it follows that there exists subfactors of L(F 1) with index s for every s 2 4; 1) .We will use the noncommutative (quantum) probabilistic approach introduced in Voiculescu's paper. Von Neumann algebras were introduced by Murray and von Neumann in the early thirties to provide a framework for quantum physics. As formulated by Heisenberg, quantization amounts to replacing the algebra of "observable" functions on the phase space of a classical system by a non-commuting algebra of innnite matrices , or more precisely, operators on a Hilbert space. By deenition , a von Neumann algebra is a weakly closed, self-adjoint algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space which contains the identity operator. Whereas any commutative von Neumann algebra is *-isomorphic to the algebra of bounded functions on a measure space , the structure of the non-commutative algebras is much more subtle. The simplest non-commutative von Neumann algebras