Prioritarianism is supposed to be a theory of the overall good that captures the common intuition of “priority to the worse off”. But it is difficult to give precise content to the prioritarian claim. Over the past few decades, prioritarians have increasingly responded to this ‘content problem’ by formulating prioritarianism not in terms of an alleged primitive notion of quantity of well-being,...

This paper presents seven theorems and nine propositions that can be read as deconstructing integrating the continuity postulate under rubric of pioneering work Eilenberg, Wold, von Neumann–Morgenstern, Herstein–Milnor Debreu. Its point departure is fact adjective continuous applied to a function or binary relation does not acknowledge many meanings given concept it names, variety technical mat...

Of the many areas of mathematics shaped by his genius, none shows more clearly the influence of John von Neumann than the Theory of Games. This modern approach to problems of competition and cooperation was given a broad foundation in his superlative paper of 1928 [A]. In scope and youthful vigor this work can be compared only to his papers of the same period on the axioms of set theory and the...

we show that every semi-artinian module which is contained in a direct sum of finitely presented modules in $si[m]$, is weakly co-semisimple if and only if it is regular in $si[m]$. as a consequence, we observe that every semi-artinian ring is regular in the sense of von neumann if and only if its simple modules are $fp$-injective.

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We prove that for all 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞, p 6= 2, the Lp spaces associated to two von Neumann algebrasM, N are isometrically isomorphic if and only if M and N are Jordan *-isomorphic. This follows from a noncommutative Lp Banach-Stone theorem: a specific decomposition for surjective isometries of noncommutative Lp spaces.

We prove that the relative commutant of a diffuse von Neumann subalgebra in a hyperbolic group von Neumann algebra is always injective. It follows that any non-injective subfactor in a hyperbolic group von Neumann algebra is non-Γ and prime. The proof is based on C∗-algebra theory.

We prove that the von Neumann algebras generated by n q-Gaussian elements, are factors for n > 2.

λ(s)δt = δst and ρ(s)δt = δts−1 for s, t ∈ Γ. The reduced group C∗-algebra C∗ λΓ is the C∗-algebra generated by λ, likewise for C∗ ρΓ; C∗ λΓ = λ(CΓ) ‖ ‖ ⊂ B(`2Γ) and C∗ ρΓ = ρ(CΓ) ‖ ‖ ⊂ B(`2Γ). The group von Neumann algebra LΓ is the von Neumann algebra generated by λ; LΓ = λ(CΓ)′′ = ρ(CΓ)′. We sometime use M instead of LΓ, and L2M instead of `2Γ. We denote by τ the canonical tracial state on L...