A JC algebra is a real subspace of the space of self-adjoint operators on a real or complex Hilbert space, closed under the operator Jordan product a ∘ b = 1/2(ab + ba) and closed in the operator norm.
A Jordan operator algebra is a norm-closed subspace of the space of operators on a complex Hilbert space, closed under the Jordan product a ∘ b = 1/2(ab + ba) and closed in the operator norm.1
A Jordan Banach algebra is a real Jordan algebra with a norm making it a Banach space and satisfying || a ∘ b || ≤ ||a||⋅||b||.
A JB algebra is a Jordan Banach algebra satisfying
A JB* algebra or Jordan C* algebra is a complex Jordan algebra with an involution a ↦ a* and a norm making it a Banach space and satisfying
A JW algebra is a Jordan subalgebra of the Jordan algebra of self-adjoint operators on a complex Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology.
A JBW algebra is a JB algebra that, as a real Banach space, is the dual of a Banach space called its predual.2 There is an equivalent more technical definition in terms of the continuity properties of the linear functionals in the predual, called normal functionals. This is usually taken as the definition and the abstract characterization as a dual Banach space derived as a consequence.3
See also: Euclidean Jordan algebra
The definition of JB* algebras was suggested in 1976 by Irving Kaplansky at a lecture in Edinburgh. The real part of a JB* algebra is always a JB algebra. Wright (1977) proved that conversely the complexification of every JB algebra is a JB* algebra. JB* algebras have been used extensively as a framework for studying bounded symmetric domains in infinite dimensions. This generalizes the theory in finite dimensions developed by Max Koecher using the complexification of a Euclidean Jordan algebra.7
Let M be a JBW factor. The inner automorphisms of M are those generated by the period two automorphisms Q(1 – 2p) where p is a projection. Two projections are equivalent if there is an inner automorphism carrying one onto the other. Given two projections in a factor, one of them is always equivalent to a sub-projection of the other. If each is equivalent to a sub-projection of the other, they are equivalent.
A JBW factor can be classified into three mutually exclusive types as follows:
Tomita–Takesaki theory permits a further classification of the type III case into types IIIλ (0 ≤ λ ≤ 1) with the additional invariant of an ergodic flow on a Lebesgue space (the "flow of weights") when λ = 0.11
The JBW factors not of Type I2 and I3 are all JW factors, i.e. can be realized as Jordan algebras of self-adjoint operators on a Hilbert space closed in the weak operator topology. Every JBW factor not of Type I2 or Type I3 is isomorphic to the self-adjoint part of the fixed point algebra of a period 2 *-anti-automorphism of a von Neumann algebra. In particular each JBW factor is either isomorphic to the self-adjoint part of a von Neumann factor of the same type or to the self-adjoint part of the fixed point algebra of a period 2 *-anti-automorphism of a von Neumann factor of the same type.13 For hyperfinite factors, the class of von Neumann factors completely classified by Connes and Haagerup, the period 2 *-antiautomorphisms have been classified up to conjugacy in the automorphism group of the factor.14
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