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MEASURE-MULTIPLICITY OF THE LAPLACIAN MASA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2012

KEN DYKEMA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3368, USA e-mail: kdykema@math.tamu.edu
KUNAL MUKHERJEE
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, Tamil Nadu, India e-mail: kunal@imsc.res.in
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Abstract

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It is shown that for the Laplacian masa in the free group factors, the orthocomplement of the associated Jones' projection is an infinite direct sum of coarse bimodules.

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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 2012

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