Michael's selection theorem and applications to the Maréchal topology

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Main Authors: Fima, Pierre, Maître, François Le, Mukherjee, Kunal, Patri, Issan
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author Fima, Pierre
Maître, François Le
Mukherjee, Kunal
Patri, Issan
author_facet Fima, Pierre
Maître, François Le
Mukherjee, Kunal
Patri, Issan
contents The Maréchal topology, also called the Effros-Maréchal topology, is a natural topology one can put on the space of all von Neumann subalgebras of a given von Neumann algebra. It is a result of Maréchal from 1973 that this topology is Polish as soon as the ambient algebra has separable predual, but the sketch of proof in her research announcement appears to have a small gap. Our main goal in this paper is to fill this gap by a careful look at the topologies one can put on the space of weak-$*$ closed subspaces of a dual space. We also indicate how Michael's selection theorem can be used as a step towards Maréchal's theorem, and how it simplifies the proof of an important selection result of Haagerup and Winsløw for the Maréchal topology. As an application, we show that the space of finite von Neumann algebras is $\mathbfΠ^0_3$-complete.
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spellingShingle Michael's selection theorem and applications to the Maréchal topology
Fima, Pierre
Maître, François Le
Mukherjee, Kunal
Patri, Issan
Operator Algebras
Functional Analysis
46L10, 54H05
The Maréchal topology, also called the Effros-Maréchal topology, is a natural topology one can put on the space of all von Neumann subalgebras of a given von Neumann algebra. It is a result of Maréchal from 1973 that this topology is Polish as soon as the ambient algebra has separable predual, but the sketch of proof in her research announcement appears to have a small gap. Our main goal in this paper is to fill this gap by a careful look at the topologies one can put on the space of weak-$*$ closed subspaces of a dual space. We also indicate how Michael's selection theorem can be used as a step towards Maréchal's theorem, and how it simplifies the proof of an important selection result of Haagerup and Winsløw for the Maréchal topology. As an application, we show that the space of finite von Neumann algebras is $\mathbfΠ^0_3$-complete.
title Michael's selection theorem and applications to the Maréchal topology
topic Operator Algebras
Functional Analysis
46L10, 54H05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05776