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Paired $E_0$-Semigroups

Operator Algebras 2025-09-05 v4

Abstract

In these notes we prove two main results: 1) It is well-known that two strongly continuous E0E_0-semigroups on B(H)B(H) can be paired if and only if they have anti-isomorphic Arveson systems. For a new notion of pairing (which coincides only for B(H)B(H) with the existing one), we show: For a von Neumann algebra BB, a strongly continuous E0E_0-semigroup on BB and a strongly continuous E0E_0-semigroup on BB' can be paired if and only if their product systems are commutants of each other. 2) On the way to prove the former, en passant we have to fill in a long standing important gap in the theory of intertwiner product systems \`a la Arveson (known, so far, only for B(H)B(H) in the separable case): Intertwiner product systems of faithful strongly continuous E0E_0-semigroups on von Neumann algebras have sufficiently many strongly continuous sections. We explain why both results are entirely out of reach for Arveson's methods [Arv89,Arv90] and depend essentially on the alternative approach from Skeide [Ske16].

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@article{arxiv.2303.05249,
  title  = {Paired $E_0$-Semigroups},
  author = {Michael Skeide},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.05249},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

41 pages. To appear in JMAA. Apart from correction of a few remaining typos, we improved clarity of some points raised by the referee of v3 and others, especially, regarding the notation in Section 5. (We also remind the comments to v3.)