Operator algebras and symmetric spaces

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Authors Robert M. Kauffman

Publication date 17 November 1994

Published in Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geometry of a globally symmetric Riemannian spaceinvariant differential expressionsnormal operators affiliated with the commutantspectral theory of certain operators on the Hilbert space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Linear operators on function spaces (general) (47B38) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05)

Review text

This short and nice expository paper deals with the relation between the geometry of a globally symmetric Riemannian space \(M\) and the spectral theory of certain operators on the Hilbert space \(L_ 2 (M)\). Consider the von Neumann algebra \(I(M)\) generated by the unitary operators in \(L_ 2(M)\) which arise from isometries of \(M\). The author announces an interesting theorem, providing a description of the normal operators affiliated with the commutant \(I(M)'\). As a corollary, he obtains that all normal operators generated by invariant differential expressions are affiliated with \(I(M)\). At the same time, every invariant differential expression is essentially normal.

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