Strong solidity of group factors from lattices in SO(\(n,1\)) and SU(\(n,1\)) (Q537687)

The paper presents some interesting results concerning the group factors \(L{\Gamma}\), where \(\Gamma\) is an ICC lattice in either SO(\(n, 1\)) or SU(\(n, 1\)) for \(n \geqq 2\). In the sense of Ozawa and Popa, a \(II_{1}\) factor \(M\) is strongly solid iff for any diffuse amenable subalgebra \(P \subset M\) we have that \({\mathcal{N}_{M}}(P){''}\) is amenable, where \({\mathcal{N}_{M}}(P)\) denotes, as usual, the normalizer of \(P\) in \(M\). The main results of the paper are Theorem 0.2 and Theorem 0.3. Namely, the first result asserts that if \(\Gamma\) is an ICC lattice in either SO\((n, 1)\) or SU\((n, 1)\) for \(n \geqq 2\), then \(L{\Gamma}\) is strongly solid. The second result shows that if \(\Gamma\) is a nonamenable, countable, discrete group which has the complete metric approximation property and \(\Gamma\) decomposes as a non-trivial free product, then \(L{\Gamma}\) does not have any Cartan subalgebras.