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I've got a paper which shows that when the spectral theorem (as a statement that every self-adjoint matrix can be unitarily diagonalised) is naively generalised to $*$-algebras other than the complex ...

What is the generalization of eigenvalues/vectors to modules? To be specific, given a "vector" v in a module over some ring, and a linear "operator" O from the module to itself (please feel free to ...