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Tensor Product Decompositions of II1 Factors Arising from Extensions of Amalgamated Free Product Groups
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Tensor Product Decompositions of II1 Factors Arising from Extensions of Amalgamated Free Product Groups

Ionut Chifan, Rolando de Santiago and Wanchalerm Sucpikarnon
Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol.364(3), pp.1163-1194
12/2018
DOI: 10.1007/s00220-018-3175-z
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.05019View
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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new family of icc groups $${\Gamma}$$ Γ which satisfy the following product rigidity phenomenon, discovered in Drimbe et al. (J Reine Angew Math, 2016. arXiv:1611.02209): all tensor product decompositions of the II1 factor $${L(\Gamma)}$$ L(Γ) arise only from the canonical direct product decompositions of the underlying group $${\Gamma}$$ Γ . Our groups are assembled from certain HNN-extensions and amalgamated free products and include many remarkable groups studied throughout mathematics such as graph product groups, poly-amalgam groups, Burger–Mozes groups, Higman group, various integral two-dimensional Cremona groups, etc. As a consequence we obtain several new examples of groups that give rise to prime factors.
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