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Canonical Time Evolution for Type $II_{1}$-Factors?
This question was spurred by the answer of Steve Huntsman to the MO question here. The Tomita-Takesaki modular automorphism group gives rise to a canonical time evolution on a type $III$ factor (...
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What's the purpose of the operator $(\Delta^{-1}+\lambda)^{-1}$ in Tomita-Takesaki modular theory?
I was reading Tomita-Takesaki modular theory (from all the books, and articles), the goal is to relate a von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{A}$ with its commutant $\mathcal{A}'$ on a Hilbert space $\...
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