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Item On Two Properties of Operator Algebras: Logmodularity of Subalgebras, Embeddability into R^w(2012-02-14) Iushchenko, KaterynaThis dissertation is devoted to several questions that arise in operator algebra theory. In the first part of the work we study the dilations of homomorphisms of subalgebras to the algebras that contain them. We consider the question whether a contractive homomorphism of a logmodular algebra into B(H) is completely contractive, where B(H) denotes the algebra of all bounded operators on a Hilbert space H. We show that every logmodular subalgebra of Mn(C) is unitary equivalent to an algebra of block upper triangular matrices, which was conjectured by V. Paulsen and M. Raghupathi. In particular, this shows that every unital contractive representation of a logmodular subalgebra of Mn(C) is automatically completely contractive. In the second part of the dissertation we investigate certain matrices composed of mixed, second?order moments of unitaries. The unitaries are taken from C??algebras with moments taken with respect to traces, or, alternatively, from matrix algebras with the usual trace. These sets are of interest in light of a theorem of E. Kirchberg about Connes' embedding problem and provide a new approach to it. Finally, we give a modification of I. Klep and M. Schweighofer?s algebraic reformulation of Connes' embedding problem by considering the ?-algebra of the countably generated free group. This allows us to consider only quadratic polynomials in unitary generators instead of arbitrary polynomials in self-adjoint generators.Item The Amalgamated Free Product of Hyperfinite von Neumann Algebras(2012-07-16) Redelmeier, DanielWe examine the amalgamated free product of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras. First we describe the amalgamated free product of hyperfinite von Neumann algebras over finite dimensional subalgebras. In this case the result is always the direct sum of a hyperfinite von Neumann algebra and a finite number of interpolated free group factors. We then show that this class is closed under this type of amalgamated free product. After that we allow amalgamation over possibly infinite dimensional multimatrix subalgebras. In this case the product of two hyperfinite von Neumann algebras is the direct sum of a hyperfinite von Neumann algebra and a countable direct sum of interpolated free group factors. As before, we show that this class is closed under amalgamated free products over multimatrix algebras.