Lamplighter groups and von Neumann's continuous regular ring

DOI10.1090/PROC/13066zbMATH Open1356.46043arXiv1402.5499OpenAlexW15828319MaRDI QIDQ2802108FDOQ2802108

Gábor Elek

Publication date: 25 April 2016

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a discrete group. Following Linnell and Schick one can define a continuous ring $c(Gamma)$ associated with $Gamma$. They proved that if the Atiyah Conjecture holds for a torsion-free group $Gamma$, then $c(Gamma)$ is a skew field. Also, if $Gamma$ has torsion and the Strong Atiyah Conjecture holds for $Gamma$, then $c(Gamma)$ is a matrix ring over a skew field. The simplest example when the Strong Atiyah Conjecture fails is the lamplighter group $Gamma=Z_{2}wrZ$. It is known that $C(Z_{2}wrZ)$ does not even have a classical ring of quotients. Our main result is that if $H$ is amenable, then $c(Z_{2}wrH)$ is isomorphic to a continuous ring constructed by John von Neumann in the ${1930}^{\prime }s$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5499

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zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann algebraslamplighter groupcontinuous ringsalgebra of affiliated operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

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