On the uniqueness of the injective factor
Uffe Haagerup

Abstract
We give a new proof of a theorem due to Alain Connes, that an injective factor of type III_1 with separable predual and with trivial bicentralizer is isomorphic to the Araki--Woods type III_1 factor _infty. This, combined with the author's solution to the bicentralizer problem for injective III_1 factors provides a new proof of the theorem that up to *-isomorphism, there exists a unique injective factor of type III_1 on a separable Hilbert space.
Cite this article
Uffe Haagerup, On the uniqueness of the injective factor. Doc. Math. 21 (2016), pp. 1193–1226
DOI 10.4171/DM/556