Continuity of the sequential product of sequential quantum effect algebras

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Abstract: In order to study quantum measurement theory, sequential product defined for any two quantum effects is introduced. Physically motivated conditions ask the sequential product to be continuous with respect to the strong operator topology. In this paper, we study the continuity problems of the sequential product with respect to the other important topologies, as norm topology, weak operator topology, order topology, interval topology, etc.


The authors study the continuity of the sequential product \(A \circ B = A^{1/2} B A^{1/2}\) of effects (positive operators bounded by the identity) on a complex separable Hilbert space. It is shown that the sequential product is jointly continuous with respect to the norm topology while continuous only in the second variable with respect to the weak operator, order and interval topologies and to the order convergence.











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