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Stefaan Vaes

Stefaan Vaes

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Mathematics

D-Index
39
Citations
5233
World Ranking
2237
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Stefaan Vaes is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, specializing in mathematics with a focus on areas related to operator algebras, topology, and mathematical physics. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including mathematical physics, geometry and topology, algebra and number theory, statistical and nonlinear physics, and applied mathematics.

The scientist's primary research topics include advanced operator algebra research, advanced topics in algebra, geometric and algebraic topology, mathematical dynamics and fractals, homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology, spectral theory in mathematical physics, and advanced algebra and geometry.

Stefaan Vaes has a publication record covering multiple influential venues, with a notable presence in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Advances in Mathematics
  • Oberwolfach Reports
  • International Mathematics Research Notices

Among recent research papers, some of the titles include:

  • W$$^*$$-Rigidity Paradigms for Embeddings of $$\hbox {II}_1$$ Factors (2022), Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Nonsingular Gaussian actions: Beyond the mixing case (2022), Advances in Mathematics
  • Classification of regular subalgebras of the hyperfinite II1 factor (2020), Lirias (KU Leuven)
  • Quantum Automorphism Groups of Connected Locally Finite Graphs and Quantizations of Discrete Groups (2023), International Mathematics Research Notices
  • Nonsingular Bernoulli actions of arbitrary Krieger type (2022), Analysis & PDE

Frequent collaborations have been established with the following co-authors:

  • Amine Marrakchi
  • Tey Berendschot
  • Sorin Popa
  • Dimitri Shlyakhtenko
  • Daniel Drimbe

Stefaan Vaes was recognized as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Locally compact quantum groups

    Johan Kustermans;Stefaan Vaes

  • Locally compact quantum groups in the von Neumann algebraic setting

    Johan Kustermans;Stefaan Vaes

  • Explicit computations of all finite index bimodules for a family of II$_1$ factors

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Unique Cartan decomposition for II1 factors arising from arbitrary actions of free groups

    Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • Ergodic Coactions with Large Multiplicity and Monoidal Equivalence of Quantum Groups

    Julien Bichon;An De Rijdt;Stefaan Vaes

  • The boundary of universal discrete quantum groups, exactness, and factoriality

    Stefaan Vaes;Roland Vergnioux

  • Extensions of locally compact quantum groups and the bicrossed product construction

    Stefaan Vaes;Leonid Vainerman

  • The unitary implementation of a locally compact quantum group action

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Unique Cartan decomposition for II_1 factors arising from arbitrary actions of hyperbolic groups

    Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • Strong rigidity of generalized Bernoulli actions and computations of their symmetry groups

    Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • A new approach to induction and imprimitivity results

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Rigidity results for Bernoulli actions and their von Neumann algebras

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Rigidity results for Bernoulli actions and their von Neumann algebras [after Sorin Popa]

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Group measure space decomposition of II1 factors and W*-superrigidity

    Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • Rigidity for von Neumann algebras and their invariants

    Stefaan Vaes

  • A CLASS OF SUPERRIGID GROUP VON NEUMANN ALGEBRAS

    Adrian Ioana;Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • DOUBLE CROSSED PRODUCTS OF LOCALLY COMPACT QUANTUM GROUPS

    Saad Baaj;Stefaan Vaes

  • The operator algebra approach to quantum groups

    Johan Kustermans;Stefaan Vaes

  • Group measure space decomposition of II_1 factors and W*-superrigidity

    Sorin Popa;Stefaan Vaes

  • Strictly outer actions of groups and quantum groups

    Stefaan Vaes

  • Non-Semi-Regular Quantum Groups Coming from Number Theory

    Saad Baaj;Georges Skandalis;Stefaan Vaes

Frequent Co-Authors

Sorin Popa
Sorin Popa University of California, Los Angeles

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