Venue
Seminar Room, School of Mathematical Sciences
Speaker
Kunal Krishna Mukherjee
Affiliation
IIT Madras
Title
Factoriality of q-deformed Araki-Woods algebras
We discuss factoriality and structural properties of the q-deformed algebras of Hiai. These are type III cousins of the free group factors, extremely complicated objects and even very basic questions about them remain open. Using maximal abelian subalgebras we demonstrate that they are factors except few cases - the problem being open since 2000.