Spectral gap and strict outerness for actions of locally compact groups on full factors (Q6113472)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7724329
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Spectral gap and strict outerness for actions of locally compact groups on full factors (English)
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9 August 2023
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Summary: We prove that an outer action of a locally compact group \(G\) on a full factor \(M\) is automatically strictly outer, meaning that the relative commutant of \(M\) in the crossed product is trivial. If moreover the image of \(G\) in the outer automorphism group Out\,\(M\) is closed, we prove that the crossed product remains full. We obtain this result by proving that the inclusion of \(M\) in the crossed product automatically has a spectral gap property. Such results had only been proven for actions of discrete groups and for actions of compact groups, by using quite different methods in both cases. Even for the canonical free Bogoljubov actions on free group factors or free Araki-Woods factors, these results are new.
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spectral gap
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outer action
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full factor
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crossed product von Neumann algebra
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free group factor
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free Araki-Woods factor
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