Partial classification of the Baumslag-Solitar group von Neumann algebras

zbMATH Open1314.46073arXiv1301.0510MaRDI QIDQ462467FDOQ462467

Stefaan Vaes, Niels Meesschaert

Publication date: 20 October 2014

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the rational number |n/m| is an invariant of the group von Neumann algebra of the Baumslag-Solitar group BS(n,m). More precisely, if L(BS(n,m)) is isomorphic with L(BS(n',m')), then |n'/m'| = |n/m| or |m/n|. We obtain this result by associating to abelian, but not maximal abelian, subalgebras of a II_1 factor, an equivalence relation that can be of type III. In particular, we associate to L(BS(n,m)) a canonical equivalence relation of type III_|n/m|.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0510

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zbMATH Keywords

invariantBaumslag-Solitar groupgroup von Neumann algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Classification of factors (46L36)

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• A rigidity result for crossed products of actions of Baumslag–Solitar groups
• Baumslag-Solitar groups, relative profinite completions and measure equivalence rigidity

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