Tensor products of unbounded operator algebras (Q457950)

The authors study tensor products of algebras of unbounded operators, namely \(O^*\)-algebras. Let \(D\subset H\) be a dense subspace of a Hilbert space, and consider \[ {\mathcal L}^\dagger(D)=\{x:D\to D: D\subset D(x^*) \text{ and } x^*(D)\subset D\}. \] Thus \({\mathcal L}^\dagger(D)\) becomes a \(*\)-algebra. An \(O^*\)-algebra \(M\) is a \(*\)-subalgebra of \({\mathcal L}^\dagger(D)\). It is endowed with the locally convex topology induced by the seminorms \(\|\;\|_x\), \(x\in M\), given by \[ \|\xi\|_x=\|\xi\|+\|x\xi\|, \;\;\xi\in D. \] \(M\) is called an \(EW^*\)-algebra if for all \(x \in M\), \((1+x^*x)^{-1}\) is bounded. The authors construct three types of tensor products of \(O^*\)-algebras. The three notions coincide when the algebras are \(EW^*\)-algebras.