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20172026
most citedII factors with exotic central sequence algebras

2 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

math.OA2026

Hilbert--Schmidt stability for graph products

Pieter Spaas

In this short note we prove Hilbert--Schmidt stability for graph products of abelian groups and -algebras on chordal graphs. In particular, this shows that right-angled Artin…

math.LO2026

Spectral Theory for Borel PMP Graphs

Cecelia Higgins, Pieter Spaas, Alexander Tenenbaum

We initiate a systematic study of spectral theory for bounded-degree Borel pmp graphs. Specifically, we study spectral properties of the associated adjacency and Laplacian operator…

quant-ph2025

Gap-preserving reductions and RE-completeness of independent set games

Laura Mančinska, Pieter Spaas, Taro Spirig +1

In complexity theory, gap-preserving reductions play a crucial role in studying hardness of approximation and in analyzing the relative complexity of multiprover interactive proof…

math.OA2024

Trace spaces of full free product -algebras

Adrian Ioana, Pieter Spaas, Itamar Vigdorovich

We study the space of traces associated with arbitrary full free products of unital, separable -algebras. We show that, unless certain basic obstructions (which we fully chara…

math.GR2023

Local Hilbert--Schmidt stability

Francesco Fournier-Facio, Maria Gerasimova, Pieter Spaas

We introduce a notion of local Hilbert--Schmidt stability, motivated by the recent definition by Bradford of local permutation stability, and give examples of (non-residually finit…

math.GR2023

Hyperfiniteness for group actions on trees

Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, Koichi Oyakawa, Forte Shinko +1

We identify natural conditions for a countable group acting on a countable tree which imply that the orbit equivalence relation of the induced action on the Gromov boundary is Bore…

math.OA2022★ 1 cited

On compact extensions of tracial -dynamical systems

Asgar Jamneshan, Pieter Spaas

We establish several classification results for compact extensions of tracial -dynamical systems and for relatively independent joinings thereof for actions of arbitrary discr…

math.DS2021

Stable decompositions and rigidity for products of countable equivalence relations

Pieter Spaas

We show that the stabilization of any countable ergodic p.m.p. equivalence relation which is not Schmidt, i.e. admits no central sequences in its full group, always gives rise to a…

math.OA2020★ 1 cited

Cohomological obstructions to lifting properties for full group C-algebras

Adrian Ioana, Pieter Spaas, Matthew Wiersma

We develop a new method, based on non-vanishing of second cohomology groups, for proving the failure of lifting properties for full C-algebras of countable groups with (relativ…

math.OA2019★ 2 cited

II factors with exotic central sequence algebras

Adrian Ioana, Pieter Spaas

We provide a class of separable II factors whose central sequence algebra is not the "tail" algebra associated to any decreasing sequence of von Neumann subalgebras of .…

math.OA2018

A class of II factors with a unique McDuff decomposition

Adrian Ioana, Pieter Spaas

We provide a fairly large class of II factors such that has a unique McDuff decomposition, up to isomorphism, where denotes the hyperfinite II f…

math.OA2017

Non-classification of Cartan subalgebras for a class of von Neumann algebras

Pieter Spaas

We study the complexity of the classification problem for Cartan subalgebras in von Neumann algebras. We construct a large family of II factors whose Cartan subalgebras up to u…