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Journal of Functional Analysis

Volume 277, Issue 7, 1 October 2019, Pages 2442-2469
Journal of Functional Analysis

Pythagorean representations of Thompson's groups

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Abstract

We introduce the Pythagorean C*-algebras and use the category/functor method to construct unitary representations of Thompson's groups from representations of them. We calculate several examples.

MSC

10.030
10.040
70.050

Keywords

Thompson's group
C*-algebras
Representations

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A.B. was partially supported by the European Research Council Advanced Grant 669240 QUEST. V.J. is not supported by an NSF grant.