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

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We refute Kaplansky's quasitrace conjecture by constructing a separable unital complex C ∗ -algebra that admits normalized 2-quasitraces but has no tracial state. As a consequence, we show that the minimal tensor product of two unital simple stably finite complex C ∗ -algebras can be properly infinite, even when one factor is the reduced free-group algebra $C_r^*(\mathbb F_2)$.

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