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Rigidity for von Neumann algebras of amalgamated free product groups

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May 1, 2018
Abstract
Adrian Ioana - University of California, San Diego (UCSD) I will explain recent work with Ionut Chifan in which we provide a large family of amalgamated free product groups whose amalgam structure can be completely recognized from their von Neumann algebras. Our result significantly strengthens some of the previous Bass-Serre rigidity results for von Neumann algebras. As a consequence, we obtain the first examples of amalgamated free product groups which are W∗-superrigid.