Some groups whose reduced C * -algebra is simple
Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 80 (1994), pp. 117-134. 
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Bekka, M.; Cowling, M.; La Harpe, P. de. Some groups whose reduced $C^\ast $-algebra is simple. Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS, Tome 80 (1994), pp. 117-134. http://www.numdam.org/item/PMIHES_1994__80__117_0/

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