We give new proofs of many injectivity results in analysis that make more careful use of the duality between abelian C*-algebras and topological spaces. We then extend many of these ideas to incorporate the case of a ...We give new proofs of many injectivity results in analysis that make more careful use of the duality between abelian C*-algebras and topological spaces. We then extend many of these ideas to incorporate the case of a group action. This approach gives new insight into Hamana's theory of G-injective operator spaces and G-injective envelopes. Our new proofs of these classic results, use only topological methods and eliminate the need for results from the theory of Boolean algebras and AW*-algebras.展开更多
Based on the notion of free orbit-dimension of Hadwin-Shen (2007) we introduce a new invariant for finite von Neumann algebras with arbitrarily large generating sets and acting on Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension...Based on the notion of free orbit-dimension of Hadwin-Shen (2007) we introduce a new invariant for finite von Neumann algebras with arbitrarily large generating sets and acting on Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension. We show that this invariant is independent of the generating set, and we extend results in Hadwin-Shen (2007) to this larger class of algebras.展开更多
基金supported in part by National Science Foundation of USA (Grant No. DMS-0600191)
文摘We give new proofs of many injectivity results in analysis that make more careful use of the duality between abelian C*-algebras and topological spaces. We then extend many of these ideas to incorporate the case of a group action. This approach gives new insight into Hamana's theory of G-injective operator spaces and G-injective envelopes. Our new proofs of these classic results, use only topological methods and eliminate the need for results from the theory of Boolean algebras and AW*-algebras.
文摘Based on the notion of free orbit-dimension of Hadwin-Shen (2007) we introduce a new invariant for finite von Neumann algebras with arbitrarily large generating sets and acting on Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimension. We show that this invariant is independent of the generating set, and we extend results in Hadwin-Shen (2007) to this larger class of algebras.
