Operator Algebra Seminars

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Date, time & place Monday 15:30 - 17:00 Room # (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) MATUI Hiroki, KIDA Yoshikata, KAWAHIGASHI Yasuyuki

2010/06/24

16:30-18:00   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Thomas Sinclair (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Strong solidity of factors from lattices in SO(n,1) and SU(n,1) (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Generalizing techniques found in Ozawa and Popa,
``On a class of II$_1$ factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra, II''
(Amer. J. Math., to appear), we show that the group factors of ICC
lattices in SO(n,1) and SU(n,1), $n\\ge2$, are strongly solid. If
time permits, we will also discuss applications to $L^2$-rigidity.