Kaplansky's quasitrace conjecture and failure of tensor-product stable finiteness

Formal proof listed 1 paper September 23, 2026
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Disproves Kaplansky's quasitrace conjecture by constructing a separable unital complex C∗-algebra admitting normalized 2-quasitraces, all of which are nonadditive. As a consequence, two unital simple stably finite C∗-algebras can have a properly infinite minimal tensor product, with one factor Cr∗(F2)C_r^*(\mathbb F_2).

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