Irreducibly represented groups

DOI10.4171/CMH/145zbMATH Open1154.22005arXivmath/0611814OpenAlexW2092984063MaRDI QIDQ951968FDOQ951968

Pierre de la Harpe, Bachir Bekka

Publication date: 5 November 2008

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A group is irreducibly represented if it has a faithful irreducible unitary representation. For countable groups, a criterion for irreducible representability is given, which generalises a result obtained for finite groups by W. Gasch"utz in 1954. In particular, torsionfree groups and infinite conjugacy class groups are irreducibly represented. We indicate some consequences of this for operator algebras. In particular, we charaterise up to isomorphism the countable subgroups $Delta$ of the unitary group of a separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space $CalH$ of which the bicommutants $Delt{a}^{″}$ (in the sense of the theory of von Neumann algebras) coincide with the algebra of all bounded linear operators on $CalH$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0611814

zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann algebrairreducible representationgroup representationfaithful representationinfinite group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07)

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