Bounded normal generation and invariant automatic continuity

Advances in Mathematics

Volumn 346, Issue , 2019, Pages 124-169

  Dowerk, Philip A ^a   Thom, Andreas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic continuity; Bounded normal generation; Unitary groups; Von Neumann algebras

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060978192     PISSN: 00018708     EISSN: 10902082     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aim.2019.01.047     Document Type: Article

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