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Determinants associated to traces on operator bimodules

Operator Algebras 2016-10-13 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Given a II1_1-factor M\mathcal{M} with tracial state τ\tau and given an M\mathcal{M}-bimodule E(M,τ)\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{M},\tau) of operators affiliated to M\mathcal{M} and a trace φ\varphi on E(M,τ)\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{M},\tau), (namely, a linear functional that is invariant under unitary conjugation), we prove that detφ:Elog(M,τ)[0,)\det_\varphi:\mathcal{E}_{\log}(\mathcal{M},\tau)\to[0,\infty) defined by detφ(T)=exp(φ(logT))\det_\varphi(T)=\exp(\varphi(\log |T|)) is a multiplicative map on the set Elog(M,τ)\mathcal{E}_{\log}(\mathcal{M},\tau) of all affiliated operators TT such that log+(T)E(M,τ)\log_+(|T|)\in\mathcal{E}(\mathcal{M},\tau). Finally, we show that all multiplicative maps on the invertible elements of Elog(M,τ)\mathcal{E}_{\log}(\mathcal{M},\tau) arise in this fashion.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1605.00349,
  title  = {Determinants associated to traces on operator bimodules},
  author = {K. Dykema and F. Sukochev and D. Zanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00349},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages. Version 2 improves the statement and proof of Theorem 1.1 and adds Proposition 1.7 about arbitrary multiplicative maps

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