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Abstract:
In this short paper we construct two countable, infinite conjugacy class (ICC) groups which admit free, ergodic, probability measure-preserving orbit equivalent actions but whose group von Neumann algebras are not (stably) isomorphic.References
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Additional Information
- Ionut Chifan
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240 – and – Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- Email: ionut.chifan@vanderbilt.edu
- Adrian Ioana
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 – and – Institute of Mathematics “Simion Stoilow” of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- Email: aioana@caltech.edu
- Received by editor(s): September 3, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 5, 2010
- Published electronically: August 23, 2010
- Communicated by: Marius Junge
- © Copyright 2010
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 1091-1093
- MSC (2010): Primary 46L10; Secondary 37A20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10553-1
- MathSciNet review: 2745659