Since the pioneering work of Dixmier and Segal in the early 50’s, the theory of noncommutative LP-spaces has grown into a very refined and important theory with wide applications. Despite this fact there is as yet no self-contained peer-reviewed introduction to the most general version of this theory in print. The present work aims to fill this vacuum, in the process giving fresh impetus to the theory. The first part of the book presents: the introductory theory of von Neumann algebras – also including the slightly less common theory of generalized positive operators; the various notions of measurability, allowing the interpretation of unbounded affiliated operators as “quantum”" measurable functions, with the crucial notion of τ-measurability developed in more detail; Jordan *-morphisms (representing quantum measurable transformations) that behave well with regard to τ-measurability; and finally the different types of weights that occur naturally in the theory, before presenting a Radon-Nikodym theorem for such weights. The core, second part of the book is devoted to first developing the noncommutative theory of decreasing rearrangements, before using that technology to present the basic theory of LP and Orlicz spaces for semifinite algebras, and then the notion of crossed product, as well as the technology underlying it, indispensable for the theory of Haagerup LP-spaces for general von Neumann algebras. With this as a foundation, we are then finally ready to present the basic structural theory of not only Haagerup LP-spaces, but also Orlicz spaces for general von Neumann algebras.


Rok wydania2020
Liczba stron308
KategoriaPublikacje darmowe
WydawcaWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
ISBN-13978-83-8220-386-8
Numer wydania1
Język publikacjiangielski
Informacja o sprzedawcyePWN sp. z o.o.

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  Preface    7
  
  Introduction    11
  
  Chapter 1. Preliminaries    17
  1.1. C*-algebras    17
  1.2. Bounded operators    23
  1.3. Von Neumann algebras    27
  1.4. Unbounded operators    38
  1.5. Affiliated operators     45
  1.6. Generalized positive operators    47
  
  Chapter 2. Noncommutative measure theory — semifinite case    55
  2.1. Traces    55
  2.2. Measurability    64
  2.3. Algebraic properties of measurable operators    76
  2.4. Topological properties of measurable operators    78
  2.5. Order properties of measurable operators     82
  2.6. Jordan morphisms on M�    87
  
  Chapter 3. Weights and densities    91
  3.1. Weights    91
  3.2. Extensions of weights and traces    96
  3.3. Density of weights with respect to a trace     98
  
  Chapter 4. A basic theory of decreasing rearrangements    109
  4.1. Distributions and reduction to subalgebras    109
  4.2. Algebraic properties of decreasing rearrangements    118
  4.3. Decreasing rearrangements and the trace    122
  4.4. Integral inequalities and Monotone Convergence    131
  
  Chapter 5. Lp and Orlicz spaces for semifinite algebras    135
  5.1. Lp-spaces for von Neumann algebras with a trace    135
  5.2. Introduction to Orlicz spaces    161
  
  Chapter 6. Crossed products    187
  6.1. Modular automorphism groups    188
  6.2. Connes cocycle derivatives    197
  6.3. Conditional expectations and operator valued weights    199
  6.4. Crossed products with general group actions    201
  6.5. Crossed products with abelian locally compact groups    205
  6.6. Crossed products with modular automorphism groups    223
  Chapter 7. Lp and Orlicz spaces for general von Neumann algebras    237
  7.1. The semifinite setting revisited    237
  7.2. Definition and normability of general Lp and Orlicz spaces    242
  7.3. The trace functional and tr-duality for Lp-spaces    256
  7.4. Dense subspaces of Lp-spaces    263
  7.5. L2(M) and the standard form of a von Neumann algebra    278
  
  Epilogue: Suggestions for further reading and study    285
  
  Bibliography    289
  
  Notation Index    299
  
  Subject Index    303
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