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On Galois Correspondence and Non-Commutative Martingales

Operator Algebras 2008-12-23 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The subject of this thesis is Galois correspondence for von Neumann algebras and its interplay with non-commutative probability theory. After a brief introduction to representation theory for compact groups, in particular to Peter-Weyl theorem, and to operator algebras, including von Neumann algebras, automorphism groups, crossed products and decomposition theory, we formulate first steps of a non-commutative version of probability theory and introduce non-abelian analogues of stochastic processes and martingales. The central objects are a von Neumann algebra \Ma\Ma and a compact group \Gr\Gr acting on \Ma\Ma, for which we give in three consecutive steps, i.e. for inner, spatial and general automorphism groups one-to-one correspondences between subgroups of \Gr\Gr and von Neumann subalgebras of \Ma\Ma. Furthermore, we identify non-abelian martingales in our approach and prove for them a convergence theorem.

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@article{arxiv.0812.3943,
  title  = {On Galois Correspondence and Non-Commutative Martingales},
  author = {Timor Saffary},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3943},
  year   = {2008}
}
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