Kakutani's example on product spectral measures (Q1185415)

A scalar-type spectral operator in Banach space, briefly a scalar operator, having an integral representation of the form \(\int f dP\) for some spectral measure \(P\) and some \(P\)-integral function \(f\), is a natural analogue of a normal operator in Hilbert space. Here the spectral measure \(P\) is assumed to be \(\sigma\)-additive and uniformly bounded on an algebra of sets. There is slight ambiguity as to whether the algebra itself is assumed to be a \(\sigma\)-algebra or not. The question of whether the sum of two commuting scalar operators is again a scalar operator was answered negatively by S. Kakutani, who showed that the algebra of projections, generated by two commuting, uniformly bounded spectral measures is not necessarily uniformly bounded. In this paper the author points out that in Kakutani's example the domains of spectral measures are not \(\sigma\)-algebras and that the spectral measures can not be extended to spectral measures on \(\sigma\)- algebras.