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The Mackey-Gleason-Bunce-Wright problem for vector-valued measures on projections in a JBW$^*$-algebra

Operator Algebras 2025-09-04 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Let P(J)\mathcal{P} (\mathfrak{J}) denote the lattice of projections of a JBW^*-algebra J\mathfrak{J}, and let XX be a Banach space. A bounded finitely additive XX-valued measure on P(J)\mathcal{P}(\mathfrak{J}) is a mapping μ:P(J)X\mu: \mathcal{P}(\mathfrak{J}) \rightarrow X satisfying: (a)(a) μ(p+q)=μ(p)+μ(q)\mu(p +q) = \mu(p) + \mu(q), whenever pq=0p \circ q = 0 in P(J)\mathcal{P} (\mathfrak{J}), (b)(b) sup{μ(p):pP(J)}<\sup \{ \| \mu(p)\| \, : \, p \in \mathcal{P} (\mathfrak{J})\} < \infty. In this paper we establish a Mackey-Gleason-Bunce-Wright theorem by showing that if J\mathfrak{J} contains no type I2I_2 direct summand, every bounded finitely additive measure μ:P(J)X\mu: \mathcal{P}(\mathfrak{J}) \rightarrow X admits an extension to a bounded linear operator from J\mathfrak{J} to XX. This solves a long-standing open conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2509.03213,
  title  = {The Mackey-Gleason-Bunce-Wright problem for vector-valued measures on projections in a JBW$^*$-algebra},
  author = {Gerardo M. Escolano and Antonio M. Peralta and Armando R. Villena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03213},
  year   = {2025}
}
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