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Is Every Product System Concrete?

Operator Algebras 2024-10-07 v3

Abstract

Is every product system of Hilbert spaces over a semigroup PP concrete, i.e. isomorphic to the product system of an E0E_0-semigroup over PP? The answer, in general, is no. We record a non-example when PP is cancellative and is not embeddable in a group. However, we show that the answer is yes for a reasonable class of semigroups which includes solid, Borel subsemigroups of locally compact abelian groups. We also extend Liebscher's result by showing that in the commutative setting, two product systems are isomorphic if and only if they are algebraically isomorphic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.07607,
  title  = {Is Every Product System Concrete?},
  author = {S. Sundar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07607},
  year   = {2024}
}
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