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The paper presents an example of a one-parameter group of automorphisms on the Cuntz algebra O 2 for which the KMS states exhibit a phase transition. The factor type of the extremal KMS states are determined.

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Communicated by Y. Kawahigashi

I mindet om Uffe Haagerup

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Thomsen, K. Phase Transition in O 2 . Commun. Math. Phys. 349, 481–492 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2742-4

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