Measurable realizations of groups of automorphisms, and integral representations of positive operators (Q1092392)

The paper is dedicated to the memory of L. V. Kantorovich and is connected with some of his mathematical ideas. In the first section the author is concerned with the measurable realization of the group of positive unitary operators. Although this problem of ergodic theory has been solved, the author improves an older solution of this, giving explicitly the universal linearization by means what is called a free measure. The next section contains results related to integral representations of positive operators. He obtains, in particular, an integral representation for every positive Markov contraction, for which the concept of polymorphism is needed. The third and last section contains examples, counterexamples and some open problems.