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Pythagorean representations of Thompson’s groups. (English) Zbl 07089431
Summary: We introduce the Pythagorean C*-algebras and use the category/functor method to construct unitary representations of Thompson’s groups from representations of them. We calculate several examples.

##### MSC:
 20 Group theory and generalizations 11 Number theory
##### Keywords:
Thompson’s group; C*-algebras; representations
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