Von Neumann algebrae

The operator algebra

Definition (operator algebra):

Let $X$ be a Banach space over the field $\mathbb {K} =\mathbb {R}$ or $\mathbb {C}$ . Consider the set $B(X)$ of bounded and linear functions from $X$ to itself. This

Operator topologies

Topologies on a Banach space

Definition (weak topology):

Let $X$ be a Banach space, and let $X^{*}$ be its dual space. The weak topology on $X$ is defined to be the initial topology with respect to the maps $x\mapsto x^{*}(x)$ , where $x^{*}$ ranges over $X^{*}$ .

Theorem (properties of the weak topology):

Topologies exclusively for operator spaces

Proposition (bounded operators on a normed space form a Banach space under norm topology):

Let $X$ be a Banach space, and equip the space $B(X)$ with

Definition (uniform topology):

Von Neumann algebrae, basic constructions

Definition (von Neumann algebra):

A von Neumann algebra is a subalgebra $A\leq B(H)$ which is closed under the weak operator topology.

Von Neumann bicommutant theorem