Central sequences in the factor associated with Thompson’s group F
Jolissaint, Paul
Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 48 (1998), p. 1093-1106 / Harvested from Numdam
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Nous montrons que le facteur L(F), de type II 1 engendré par la représentation régulière de F, est isomorphe à son produit tensoriel avec le facteur hyperfini de type II 1 . Cela implique que le groupe unitaire de L(F) est contractile par rapport à la topologie définie par la norme hilbertienne naturelle.

We prove that the type II 1 factor L(F) generated by the regular representation of F is isomorphic to its tensor product with the hyperfinite type II 1 factor. This implies that the unitary group of L(F) is contractible with respect to the topology defined by the natural Hilbertian norm.

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Jolissaint, Paul. Central sequences in the factor associated with Thompson’s group $F$. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, Tome 48 (1998) pp. 1093-1106. doi : 10.5802/aif.1650. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AIF_1998__48_4_1093_0/

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