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Sofic groups and direct finiteness

Rings and Algebras 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We construct an analogue of Neumann's affiliated algebras for sofic group algebras over arbitrary fields. Consequently, we settle Kaplansky's direct finiteness conjecture for sofic groups.

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@article{arxiv.math/0305440,
  title  = {Sofic groups and direct finiteness},
  author = {G. Elek and E. Szabo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0305440},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

9 pages, a shortened proof of the main result