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Applications of free entropy to finite von Neumann algebras. II (English)
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8 November 1998
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The old problem on the existence of prime Type \(II_1\) factor (with separable predual) is solved by using Voiculescu's free probability theory. More precisely, it is shown that the Type \(II_1\) factor \({\mathcal L}_{F_n}\) resulting from the regular representation of the discrete free group \(F_n\) on \(n \) generators (\(n\geq 2\)) is not isomorphic to any tensor product of two factors of Type \(II_1\). (Such Type \(II_1\) factors are called prime). The proof relies on estimates of the free entropy for \(n\)-tuples of elements in a Type \(II_1\) factors and uses, among others, geometric methods based on the Grassmann manifolds. Estimates obtained enable to prove that the free entropy \(\chi(X_1,X_2,\ldots, X_n)\) where \(X_1,X_2,\ldots, X_n\) (\(n\geq 2)\) are self-adjoint elements generating a tensor product of two Type \(II_1\) factors equals to \(-\infty\). Since there are such elements in \({\mathcal L}_{F_n}\) with finite entropy the factors \({\mathcal L}_{F_n}\) are prime. It is also shown that the interpolated free group factors are prime. The results of the paper are considerably deep and open new perspectives in the theory of von Neumann factors. [For part I see Am. J. Math. 119, No. 2, 467-485 (1997; Zbl 0871.46031)].
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prime type \(II_1\) factors
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free entropy
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separable predual
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Voiculescu's free probability theory
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Grassmann manifolds
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von Neumann factors
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