Prime factors

  1. Liming Ge†
  1. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

Abstract

We use Voiculescu’s free probability theory to prove the existence of prime factors, hence answering a longstanding problem in the theory of von Neumann algebras.

Footnotes

  • ↵ † e-mail: liming{at}math.mit.edu.

  • Richard V. Kadison, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

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  1. PNAS November 12, 1996 vol. 93 no. 23 12762-12763
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