Borel Reductibility and Classification of von Neumann Algebras
2009 ◽
Vol 15
(2)
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pp. 169-183
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AbstractWe announce some new results regarding the classification problem for separable von Neumann algebras. Our results are obtained by applying the notion of Borel reducibility and Hjorth's theory of turbulence to the isomorphism relation for separable von Neumann algebras.