Low pressure turbine provided with splitters at the last stator array

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A low pressure turbine, in particular for a gas turbine engine, extends along an axis (3), has an annular conduit (6) for guiding a gas flow and is provided with a plurality of stator arrays of blades and a plurality of rotor arrays of blades; the last of the stator arrays, considering the advancement direction of the gas flow, has a plurality of blades (25), which define a plurality of spaces (26) between them in circumferential direction; the spaces (26) are split by respective splitters (32) into a radially outer conduit (26a) and into a radially inner conduit (26b); the radial position of the splitters (32) is in the neighborhood of a radial reference position such that at least one acoustic mode is of the cut-on type in the radially inner conduit (26b).

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