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  1. Département de Mathématiques, Université de Metz, Ile du Saulcy, F-57045, Metz, France

    M. Bekka

  2. School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, P. O. Box 1, 2033, Kensington, NSW, Australia

    M. Cowling

  3. Section de Mathématiques, Université de Genève, C. P. 240, CH-1211, Genève 24, Switzerland

    P. de la Harpe

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This research was partially financed by the Australian Research Council, which supported the first two authors as Senior Research Associate at the University of New South Wales and Senior Research Fellow.

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Bekka, M., Cowling, M. & de la Harpe, P. Some groups whose reduced C*-algebra is simple. Publications Mathématiques de L’Institut des Hautes Scientifiques 80, 117–134 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698898

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