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arxiv: 1402.5499 · v1 · pith:4WD2PN4Jnew · submitted 2014-02-22 · 🧮 math.RA · math.GR

Lamplighter groups and von Neumann's continuous regular rings

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Let $\Gamma$ be a discrete group. Following Linnell and Schick one can define a continuous ring $c(\Gamma)$ associated with $\Gamma$. They proved that if the Atiyah Conjecture holds for a torsion-free group $\Gamma$, then $c(\Gamma)$ is a skew field. Also, if $\Gamma$ has torsion and the Strong Atiyah Conjecture holds for $\Gamma$, then $c(\Gamma)$ is a matrix ring over a skew field. The simplest example when the Strong Atiyah Conjecture fails is the lamplighter group $\Gamma=Z_2\wr Z$. It is known that $C(Z_2\wr Z)$ does not even have a classical ring of quotients. Our main result is that if $H$ is amenable, then $c(Z_2\wr H)$ is isomorphic to a continuous ring constructed by John von Neumann in the $1930's$.

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