Mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups are \(C^{*}\)-simple

DOI10.1016/S0022-1236(03)00216-7zbMath1064.46052arXivmath/0306204OpenAlexW2013202286MaRDI QIDQ1883221

Martin R. Bridson, Pierre De la Harpe

Publication date: 1 October 2004

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306204

zbMATH Keywords

subgroupsouter automorphism groups of free groupsreduced \(C^*\)-algebrascenterless mapping class groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28)

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