Covering entropy for types in tracial W<sup>*</sup>-algebras

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Abstract: We study embeddings of tracial mathrmW-algebras into a ultraproduct of matrix algebras through an amalgamation of free probabilistic and model-theoretic techniques. Jung implicitly and Hayes explicitly defined 1-bounded entropy through the asymptotic covering numbers of Voiculescu's microstate spaces, that is, spaces of matrix tuples (X1(N),X2(N),dots) having approximately the same -moments as the generators (X1,X2,dots) of a given tracial mathrmW-algebra. We study the analogous covering entropy for microstate spaces defined through formulas that use not only -algebra operations and the trace, but also suprema and infima, such as arise in the model theory of tracial mathrmW-algebras initiated by Farah, Hart, and Sherman. By relating the new theory with the original 1-bounded entropy, we show that if h(mathcalN:mathcalM)geq0, then there exists an embedding of mathcalM into a matrix ultraproduct mathcalQ=prodnomathcalUMn(mathbbC) such that h(mathcalN:mathcalQ) is arbitrarily close to h(mathcalN:mathcalM). We deduce if all embeddings of mathcalM into mathcalQ are automorphically equivalent, then mathcalM is strongly 1-bounded and in fact has h(mathcalM)leq0.



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