Involutory automorphisms of operator algebras

Davies, E. B.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1971-0284818-0

Involutory automorphisms of operator algebras
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by E. B. Davies

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 158 (1971), 115-142

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1971-0284818-0

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Abstract:

We develop the mathematical machinery necessary in order to describe systematically the commutation and anticommutation relations of the field algebras of an algebraic quantum field theory of the fermion type. In this context it is possible to construct a skew tensor product of two von Neumann algebras and completely describe its type in terms of the types of the constituent algebras. Mathematically the paper is a study of involutory automorphisms of ${W^\ast }$-algebras, of particular importance to quantum field theory being the outer involutory automorphisms of the type III factors. It is shown that each of the hyperfinite type III factors studied by Powers has at least two outer involutory automorphisms not conjugate under the group of all automorphisms of the factor.

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