Abstract from the Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volume 177, Number 2

Title: Free quasi-free states

Author: Dimitri Shlyakhtenko

Abstract:

To a real Hilbert space and a one-parameter group of orthogonal transformations we associate a C^*-algebra which admits a free quasi-free state. This construction is a free-probability analog of the construction of quasi-free states on the CAR and CCR algebras. We show that under certain conditions, our C^*-algebras are simple, and the free quasi-free states are unique.

The corresponding von Neumann algebras obtained via the GNS construction are free analogs of the Araki-Woods factors. Such von Neumann algebras can be decomposed into free products of other von Neumann algebras. For non-trivial one-parameter groups, these von Neumann algebras are type III factors. In the case the one-parameter group is nontrivial and almost-periodic, we show that Connes' Sd invariant completely classifies these algebras.

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