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Type III factors with unique Cartan decomposition

Operator Algebras 2013-09-23 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We prove that for any free ergodic nonsingular nonamenable action \Gamma\ \actson (X,\mu) of all \Gamma\ in a large class of groups including all hyperbolic groups, the associated group measure space factor L(X)ΓL^\infty(X) \rtimes \Gamma has L^\infty(X) as its unique Cartan subalgebra, up to unitary conjugacy. This generalizes the probability measure preserving case that was established in [PV12]. We also prove primeness and indecomposability results for such crossed products, for the corresponding orbit equivalence relations and for arbitrary amalgamated free products M1BM2M_1 *_B M_2 over a subalgebra B of type I.

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@article{arxiv.1203.1254,
  title  = {Type III factors with unique Cartan decomposition},
  author = {Cyril Houdayer and Stefaan Vaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1254},
  year   = {2013}
}

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v2: we only fixed a LaTeX issue

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