On a class of II_1 factors with at most one Cartan subalgebra
Speaker:
Narutaka Ozawa (University of California, Los Angeles)
Date and Time:
Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 11:00am to 11:50am
Location:
The Fields Institute
Abstract:
I will present examples of II1 factors with one or no Cartan subalgebras. Moreover, I will prove that the normalizer of any amenable subalgebra of a free group factor is again amenable. This is a joint work with Sorin Popa.