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1. CJM 2011 (vol 64 pp. 455)

Sherman, David
 On Cardinal Invariants and Generators for von Neumann Algebras We demonstrate how most common cardinal invariants associated with a von Neumann algebra $\mathcal M$ can be computed from the decomposability number, $\operatorname{dens}(\mathcal M)$, and the minimal cardinality of a generating set, $\operatorname{gen}(\mathcal M)$. Applications include the equivalence of the well-known generator problem, Is every separably-acting von Neumann algebra singly-generated?", with the formally stronger questions, Is every countably-generated von Neumann algebra singly-generated?" and Is the $\operatorname{gen}$ invariant monotone?" Modulo the generator problem, we determine the range of the invariant $\bigl( \operatorname{gen}(\mathcal M), \operatorname{dens}(\mathcal M) \bigr)$, which is mostly governed by the inequality $\operatorname{dens}(\mathcal M) \leq \mathfrak C^{\operatorname{gen}(\mathcal M)}$. Keywords:von Neumann algebra, cardinal invariant, generator problem, decomposability number, representation densityCategory:46L10