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A Convex Structure on Sofic Embeddings

Dynamical Systems 2012-09-18 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

Nathanial Brown introduced a convex-like structure on the set of unitary equivalence classes of unital *-homomorphisms of a separable type II_1 factor into R^\omega (ultrapower of the hyperfinite factor). The goal of this paper is to introduce such a structure on the set of sofic representations of groups. We prove that if the commutant of a representation acts ergodicaly on the Loeb measure space then that representation is an extreme point.

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@article{arxiv.1112.2195,
  title  = {A Convex Structure on Sofic Embeddings},
  author = {Liviu Paunescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.2195},
  year   = {2012}
}

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12 pages

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