The topological structure of the unitary and automorphism groups of a factor

DOI10.1007/BF02100051zbMath0799.46074OpenAlexW2082964956MaRDI QIDQ1308453

Sorin Popa, Masamichi Takesaki

Publication date: 8 December 1993

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02100051

zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groupfundamental groupfree group on infinitely many generatorsapproximately finite dimensional factorcontractibility of the automorphism group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Classifications of (C^*)-algebras (46L35) Automorphisms of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L40)

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