Representations of Baer $\ast$-semigroups
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Abstract:
Various types of Hilbert space representations for a Baer *-semigroup $S$ are defined. The representations are characterized in terms of *-positive functions on $S$ which possess additivity and consistency properties.References
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- © Copyright 1981 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (1981), 157-163
- MSC: Primary 20M30; Secondary 81B10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0593446-0
- MathSciNet review: 593446