ROOM THREE: On Fundamental groups of certain Property (T) factors
Speaker:
Sayan Das, University of Iowa
Date and Time:
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 5:00pm to 5:20pm
Location:
Online
Abstract:
Calculation of Fundamental groups of $\rm II_1$ factors is, in general, an extremely important and hard problem. In this direction, a conjecture due to A. Connes states that the Fundamental group of the group von Neumann algebra $L(G)$, where $G$ is an i.c.c. property (T) group, is trivial.
In this talk, I shall provide the first examples of property (T) group factors with trivial Fundamental group. This talk is based on a recent joint work with Ionut Chifan, Cyril Houdayer and Krishnendu Khan.