Ultraproducts of factorial W^*-bundles

Abstract: This paper investigates factorial

W^{*}

-bundles and their ultraproducts. More precisely, a

W^{*}

-bundle is factorial if the von Neumann algebras associated to its fibers are all factors. Let

M

be the tracial ultraproduct of a family of factorial

W^{*}

-bundles over compact Hausdorff spaces with finite, uniformly bounded covering dimensions. We prove that in this case the set of limit traces in

M

is weak

^{*}

-dense in the trace space

T (M)

. This in particular entails that

M

is factorial. We also provide, on the other hand, an example of ultraproduct of factorial

W^{*}

-bundles which is not factorial. Finally, we obtain some results of model-theoretic nature: if

A

and

B

are exact,

m a t h c a l Z

-stable

C^{*}

-algebras, or if they both have strict comparison, then

A e q u i v B

implies that

T (A)

is Bauer if and only if

T (B)

is. If moreover both

T (A)

and

T (B)

are Bauer simplices and second countable, then the sets of extreme traces

p a r t i a l_{e} T (A)

and

p a r t i a l_{e} T (B)

have the same covering dimension.

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