## Duke Mathematical Journal

### Free products of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras and free dimension

Ken Dykema

#### Article information

Source
Duke Math. J. Volume 69, Number 1 (1993), 97-119.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 20 February 2004

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077293426

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-93-06905-0

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1201693

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0784.46044

Subjects
Primary: 46L35: Classifications of $C^*$-algebras

#### Citation

Dykema, Ken. Free products of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras and free dimension. Duke Math. J. 69 (1993), no. 1, 97--119. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-93-06905-0. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077293426.

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