(No) Wigner theorem for C^*-algebras

DOI10.1142/S0129055X20500191MaRDI QIDQ5149199zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kitty Rang, Klaas Landsman

Publication date 8 February 2021

Published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06635

zbMATH Keywords

\(C^*\)-algebrasWigner's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

Abstract: Wigner's Theorem states that bijections of the set P_1(H) of one-dimensional projections on a Hilbert space H that preserve transition probabilities are induced by either a unitary or an anti-unitary operator on H (which is uniquely determined up to a phase). Since elements of P_1(H) define pure states on the C*-algebra B(H) of all bounded operators on H (though typically not producing all of them), this suggests possible generalizations to arbitrary C*-algebras. This paper is a detailed study of this problem, based on earlier results by R.V. Kadison (1965), F.W. Shultz (1982), K. Thomsen (1982), and others. Perhaps surprisingly, the sharpest known version of Wigner's Theorem for C*-algebras (which is a variation on a result from Shultz, with considerably simplified proof) generalizes the equivalence between the hypotheses in the original theorem and those in an analogous result on (anti) unitary implementability of Jordan automorphisms of B(H), and does not yield (anti) unitary implementability itself, far from it: abstract existence results that do give such implementability seem arbitrary and practically useless. As such, it would be fair to say that there is no Wigner Theorem for C*-algebras.

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