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Takesaki volume II chapter VII lemma 1.15
Consider the following fragments from Takesaki's second volume "Theory of operator algebras" in chapter VII on weight theory, lemma 1.15. Here $\mathcal{M}$ is a von Neumann algebra and $\...
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Takesaki: question about lemma in section "Left Hilbert algebras and weights"
To make this question relatively self-contained, this post is quite long, but the question itself is rather short.
Consider the following fragments in Takesaki's second volume "Theory of operator ...
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Decomposition of an element as a difference of positive elements in the definition subalgebra of a weight (Takesaki)
I originally asked this on MSE, but did not get an answer there.
Let $M$ be a von Neumann algebra. Let $\varphi: M_+ \to [0, \infty]$ be a weight on $M$. Consider
\begin{align*}&\mathfrak{p}_\...
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