Dissertation
Classification of tensor decomposition for II1 factors
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Autumn 2019
DOI: 10.17077/etd.005221
Abstract
In the mid thirties Murray and von Neumann found a natural way to associate a von Neumann algebra L(Γ) to any countable discrete group Γ. Classifying L(Γ) in term of Γ is a notoriously complex problem as in general the initial data tends to be lost in the von Neumann algebraic regime. An important problem in the theory of von Neumann algebras is to completely describe all possible tensor decompositions of a given group von Neumann algebra L(Γ). In this direction the main goal is to investigate how exactly a tensor decomposition of L(Γ) relates to the underlying group Γ.
In this dissertation we introduce several new classes of groups Γ for which all tensor decompositions of L(Γ) are parametrized by the canonical direct product decompositions of Γ. Specifically, we show that whenever L(Γ) = M1⊗ ̄M2 where Mi are any diffuse von Neumann algebras then there exists a non-canonical direct product decomposition Γ = Γ1 × Γ2 such that up to amplifications we have that M1 = L(Γ1) and M2 = L(Γ2). Our class include large classes of icc (infinite conjugacy class) amalgamated free products and wreath product groups. In addition we obtain similar classifications of tensor decompositions for the von Neumann algebras associated with the T0 and T1 group functors introduced by McDuff in 1969.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Classification of tensor decomposition for II1 factors
- Creators
- Wanchalerm Sucpikarnon
- Contributors
- Ionut Chifan (Advisor)Raul Curto (Committee Member)Palle Jorgensen (Committee Member)Surjit Khurana (Committee Member)Victor Camillo (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Mathematics
- Date degree season
- Autumn 2019
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.005221
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- Number of pages
- vi, 79 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2019 Wanchalerm Sucpikarnon
- Language
- English
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 75-79).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
In the study of tensor decomposition of von Neumann algebra, Popa introduced the notion of primeness which is analogous to prime numbers. However, the unique prime factorization of von Neumann algebras are much more complicated. In our work we consider von Neumann algebra arising from a group and we obtain many new classes of groups Γ that satisfy this classification result. This includes large families of amalgamated free products, wreath products, McDuff’s groups.
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Record Identifier
- 9983779900102771
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