Bimodules over Cartan masas in von Neumann algebras, norming algebras, and Mercer's theorem

zbMATH Open1275.47132arXiv1202.6408MaRDI QIDQ374080FDOQ374080

Authors: Jan Cameron, David R. Pitts, Vrej Zarikian 

Publication date: 25 October 2013

Published in: The New York Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a 1991 paper, R. Mercer asserted that a Cartan bimodule isomorphism between Cartan bimodule algebras A_1 and A_2 extends uniquely to a normal *-isomorphism of the von Neumann algebras generated by A_1 and A_2 [13, Corollary 4.3]. Mercer's argument relied upon the Spectral Theorem for Bimodules of Muhly, Saito and Solel [15, Theorem 2.5]. Unfortunately, the arguments in the literature supporting [15, Theorem 2.5] contain gaps, and hence Mercer's proof is incomplete. In this paper, we use the outline in [16, Remark 2.17] to give a proof of Mercer's Theorem under the additional hypothesis that the given Cartan bimodule isomorphism is weak-* continuous. Unlike the arguments contained in [13, 15], we avoid the use of the Feldman-Moore machinery from [8]; as a consequence, our proof does not require the von Neumann algebras generated by the algebras A_i to have separable preduals. This point of view also yields some insights on the von Neumann subalgebras of a Cartan pair (M,D), for instance, a strengthening of a result of Aoi [1]. We also examine the relationship between various topologies on a von Neumann algebra M with a Cartan MASA D. This provides the necessary tools to parametrize the family of Bures-closed bimodules over a Cartan MASA in terms of projections in a certain abelian von Neumann algebra; this result may be viewed as a weaker form of the Spectral Theorem for Bimodules, and is a key ingredient in the proof of our version of Mercer's theorem. Our results lead to a notion of spectral synthesis for weak-* closed bimodules appropriate to our context, and we show that any von Neumann subalgebra of M which contains D is synthetic. We observe that a result of Sinclair and Smith shows that any Cartan MASA in a von Neumann algebra is norming in the sense of Pop, Sinclair and Smith.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6408

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zbMATH Keywords

Cartan MASAnorming algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator spaces and completely bounded maps (46L07) Spectral synthesis on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A45) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Abstract operator algebras on Hilbert spaces (47L30)

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