Positive cones associated with a von Neumann algebra.
For any pair E,F of pseudotopological vector spaces, we endow the space L(E,F) of all continuous linear operators from E into F with a pseudotopology such that, if G is a pseudotopological space, then the mapping L(E,F) × L(F,G) ∋ (f,g) → gf ∈ L(E,G) is continuous. We use this pseudotopology to establish a result about differentiability of certain operator-valued functions related with strongly continuous one-parameter semigroups in Banach spaces, to characterize von Neumann algebras, and to establish...
Relative property (T) has recently been used to show the existence of a variety of new rigidity phenomena, for example in von Neumann algebras and the study of orbit-equivalence relations. However, until recently there were few examples of group pairs with relative property (T) available through the literature. This motivated the following result: A finitely generated group admits a special linear representation with non-amenable -Zariski closure if and only if it acts on an Abelian group (of...
In the paper [5] L. Drewnowski and the author proved that if is a Banach space containing a copy of then is not complemented in and conjectured that the same result is true if is any Banach space without the Radon-Nikodym property. Recently, F. Freniche and L. Rodriguez-Piazza ([7]) disproved this conjecture, by showing that if is a finite measure and is a Banach lattice not containing copies of , then is complemented in . Here, we show that the complementability of in together...
Using very original methods from operator algebras, Sorin Popa has shown that the orbit structure of the Bernoulli action of a property (T) group, completely remembers the group and the action. This information is even essentially contained in the crossed product von Neumann algebra. This is the first von Neumann strong rigidity theorem in the literature. The same methods allow Popa to obtain II factors with prescribed countable fundamental group.
We prove that a finite von Neumann algebra is semisimple if the algebra of affiliated operators of is semisimple. When is not semisimple, we give the upper and lower bounds for the global dimensions of and This last result requires the use of the Continuum Hypothesis.