Logic Seminar

We study the complexity of the classification problem for Cartan subalgebras in von Neumann algebras. We will discuss a construction that leads to a family of II$_1$ factors whose Cartan subalgebras, up to unitary conjugacy, are not classifiable by countable structures. We do this via establishing a strong dichotomy, depending if the action is strongly ergodic or not, on the complexity of the space of homomorphisms from a given equivalence relation to $E_0$. We will start with some of the necessary preliminaries, and then outline the proofs of the aforementioned results.