Constructing ultraweakly continuous functionals on ℬ(ℋ)

Bridges, D.; Ward, N.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04432-3

Constructing ultraweakly continuous functionals on $\mathcal B(H)$
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Abstract:

In this paper we give a constructive characterisation of ultraweakly continuous linear functionals on the space of bounded linear operators on a separable Hilbert space.

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