Idempotents in the reduced $C^ *$-algebra of a free group
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Abstract:
The purpose of this note is to give a simple proof of the theorem, originally due to M. Pimsner and D. Voiculescu, that the reduced ${C^*}$-algebra of a free group has no nontrivial idempotents.References
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- © Copyright 1988 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 103 (1988), 779-782
- MSC: Primary 46L05; Secondary 22D25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1988-0947657-9
- MathSciNet review: 947657