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Let $M$ be a von Neumann algebra which acts faithfully on a Hilbert space of density character $\kappa$ but does not on a Hilbert space of density character $\lambda<\kappa$ (that is, the density character of the predual $M_0$ is $\kappa$. Does $M$ contain a subalgebra *-isomorphic to $\ell^\infty(\kappa)$? Does $M_0$ contain a complemented subspace isomorphic as a Banach space to $\ell_1(\kappa)$? A density character is the minimal cardinality of a dense set. |
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This is not true. Popa showed in "Orthogonal pairs of ∗-subalgebras in finite von Neumann algebras" (1983), that if $F$ is a free group with arbitrary cardinality than any abelian von Neumann subalgebra of the group von Neumann algebra $LF$ must have separable predual. Edit: This doesn't even hold when $M$ is abelian since $\ell^\infty(\mathbb R)$ has no faithful state and hence does not embed into any $\sigma$-finite von Neumann algebra. |
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