Connes embedding problem
In von Neumann algebras, the Connes embedding problem or conjecture, due to Alain Connes, asks whether every type II1 factor on a separable Hilbert space can be embedded into the ultrapower of the hyperfinite type II1 factor by a free ultrafilter. The problem admits a number of equivalent formulations.[1]
Statement
Let be a free ultrafilter on the natural numbers and let R be the hyperfinite type II1 factor with trace . One can construct the ultrapower as follows: let be the von Neumann algebra of norm-bounded sequences and let . The quotient turns out to be a II1 factor with trace , where is any representative sequence of .
Connes' Embedding Conjecture asks whether every type II1 factor on a separable Hilbert space can be embedded into some .
The isomorphism class of is independent of the ultrafilter if and only if the continuum hypothesis is true (Ge-Hadwin and Farah-Hart-Sherman), but such an embedding property does not depend on the ultrafilter because von Neumann algebras acting on separable Hilbert spaces are, roughly speaking, very small.
References
- Fields Workshop around Connes' Embedding Problem – University of Ottawa, May 16–18, 2008[2]
- Survey on Connes' Embedding Conjecture, Valerio Capraro[3]
- Model theory of operator algebras I: stability, I. Farah - B. Hart - D. Sherman[4]
- Ultraproducts of C*-algebras, Ge and Hadwin, Oper. Theory Adv. Appl. 127 (2001), 305-326.
- A linearization of Connes’ embedding problem, Benoıt Collins and Ken Dykema[5]
- Notes On Automorphisms Of Ultrapowers Of II1 Factors, David Sherman, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia[6]
Notes
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(help) - ↑ http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/07-08/embedding/abstracts.html#brown
- ↑ https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1003/1003.2076v1.pdf
- ↑ http://people.virginia.edu/~des5e/papers/2009c30-stable-appl.pdf%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
- ↑ http://www.emis.de/journals/NYJM/j/2008/14-28.pdf
- ↑ http://people.virginia.edu/~des5e/papers/sm-autultra.pdf