Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall
On the representation theory of the Thompson group F
Claus Koestler
University College Cork, Ireland
Very recently we have discovered a close relationship
between the representation theory of the Thompson group F and a
certain class of (noncommutative) stationary Markov shifts. Our
approach is motivated from recent results on spreadability, a
distributional invariance principle in noncommutative probability,
and its connection to semi-cosimplical categories in algebraic
topology. My talk will introduce to and overview these recent
developments.
This talk is based in parts on joint work with Gwion Evans and Rolf Gohm.
Done