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Two applications of free entropy

arXiv:funct-an/9605005

Abstract

Using Voiculsecu's free entropy, it is shown that the free group factors L(F_n) lack property C of Popa and that they lack finite multiplicity abelian subalgebras. Property C is an assymptotic commutivity property.

14 pages, AMS-TeX. This revision corrects an error in Lemma 2.2