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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the structure of Shlyakhtenko's free Araki-Woods factors using the framework of ultraproduct von Neumann algebras. We first prove that all the free Araki-Woods factors $\Gamma(H_{\mathbb R},…

In this paper, we investigate several structural properties for crossed product ${\rm II_1}$ factors $M$ arising from free Bogoljubov actions associated with orthogonal representations $\pi : G \to \mathcal O(H_\mathbf R)$ of arbitrary…

We show that for every mixing orthogonal representation $\pi : \Z \to \mathcal O(H_\R)$, the abelian subalgebra $\LL(\Z)$ is maximal amenable in the crossed product ${\rm II}_1$ factor $\Gamma(H_\R)\dpr \rtimes_\pi \Z$ associated with the…

We show that all the free Araki-Woods factors $\Gamma(H_\R, U_t)"$ have the complete metric approximation property. Using Ozawa-Popa's techniques, we then prove that every nonamenable subfactor $\mathcal{N} \subset \Gamma(H_\R, U_t)"$ which…

Using an extension of techniques of Ozawa and Popa, we give an example of a non-amenable strongly solid $\rm{II}_1$ factor $M$ containing an "exotic" maximal abelian subalgebra $A$: as an $A$,$A$-bimodule, $L^2(M)$ is neither coarse nor…

We give examples of non-amenable ICC groups $\Gamma$ with the Haagerup property, weakly amenable with constant $\Lambda_{\cb}(\Gamma) = 1$, for which we show that the associated ${\rm II_1}$ factors $L(\Gamma)$ are strongly solid, i.e. the…

We show that for any type ${\rm III_1}$ free Araki-Woods factor $\mathcal{M} = \Gamma(H_\R, U_t)"$ associated with an orthogonal representation $(U_t)$ of $\R$ on a separable real Hilbert space $H_\R$, the continuous core $M = \mathcal{M}…

We show that for any free Araki-Woods factor $\mathcal{M} = \Gamma(H_\R, U_t)"$ of type ${\rm III_1}$, the bicentralizer of the free quasi-free state $\varphi_U$ is trivial. Using Haagerup's Theorem, it follows that there always exists a…

In the context of Free Probability Theory, we study two different constructions that provide new examples of factors of type ${\rm II_1}$ with prescribed fundamental group. First we investigate state-preserving group actions on the almost…

We use Ellis' lemma to give a simple proof of the existence of the injective envelope of an operator space first shown by work of Hamana and Ruan.

Given an amenable second countable Hausdorff locally compact \'etale groupoid $\mathcal G$ such that each isotropy group $\mathcal G^x_x$ has local polynomial growth, we give a description of $\operatorname{Prim} C^*(\mathcal G)$ as a…

For a left cancellative monoid $S$ we consider a quotient of the reduced semigroup C$^*$-algebra $C_r^*(S)$ known as the boundary quotient. We present two potential groupoid models for this boundary quotient, obtained as reductions of…

We introduce regular morphisms of topological quivers and show that they give rise to a subcategory of the category of topological quivers and quiver morphisms. Our regularity conditions render the topological quiver C*-algebra construction…

A quantum expectation is a positive linear functional of norm one on a non-commutative probability space (i.e., a C*-algebra). For a given pair of quantum expectations $\mu$ and $\lambda$ on a non-commutative probability space $A$, we…

We introduce regular closed subgraphs of Katsura's topological graphs and use them to generalize the notion of an adjunction space from topology. Our construction attaches a topological graph onto another via a regular factor map. We prove…

With every operator space structure $\mathcal{E}$ on $\mathbb{C}^d$, we associate a spectral radius function $\rho_{\mathcal{E}}$ on $d$-tuples of operators. For a $d$-tuple $X = (X_1, \ldots, X_d) \in M_n(\mathbb{C}^d)$ of matrices we show…

We prove that if the unital $C^*$-algebras $\cl A$ and $\cl B$ satisfy Kadison's similarity property and the length $L=L\left(\cl A\tens\limits_{max}\cl B\right)$ of their maximal tensor product is finite, then $\cl A\tens\limits_{max}\cl…

We show that the radial MASA in the orthogonal free quantum group algebra L(FO_N) is maximal amenable if N is large enough, using the Asymptotic Orthogonality Property. This relies on a detailed study of the corresponding bimodule, for…

Let $(M,\tau)$ be a tracial von Neumann algebra with a separable predual and let $(\Omega, \mathbb{P})$ be a probability space. A bounded positive random linear operator on $L^1(M,\tau)$ is a map $\gamma : \Omega \times L^1(M,\tau) \to…

Given a locally compact quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ and two $\mathbb{G}$-$W^*$-algebras $\alpha: A\curvearrowleft \mathbb{G}$ and $\beta: B\curvearrowleft \mathbb{G}$, we study the notion of equivariant $W^*$-Morita equivalence $(A,…