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On conjugacy and perturbation of subalgebras

Operator Algebras 2025-08-29 v2 Group Theory Logic

Abstract

We study conjugacy orbits of certain types of subalgebras in tracial von Neumann algebras. For any separable II1_1 factor N0N_0 we construct a highly indecomposable non Gamma II1_1 factor NN such that N0NN_0 \subset N and moreover every von Neumann subalgebra of NN with Haagerup's property admits a unique embedding up to unitary conjugation. Such a factor necessarily has to be non separable, but we show that it can be taken of density character 202^{\aleph_0}. On the other hand we are able to construct for any separable II1_1 factor M0M_0, a separable II1_1 factor MM containing M0M_0 such that every property (T) subfactor admits a unique embedding into MM up to uniformly approximate unitary equivalence; i.e., any pair of embeddings can be conjugated up to a small uniform 22-norm perturbation.

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@article{arxiv.2403.08072,
  title  = {On conjugacy and perturbation of subalgebras},
  author = {David Gao and Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli and Gregory Patchell and Hui Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08072},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Final version, incorporating various referee comments and fixing typos. To appear in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry