Crossed Products of Communtation Systems.
The paper deals with operator-valued positive definite kernels on a convex *-semigroup whose Kolmogorov-Aronszajn type factorizations induce *-semigroups of bounded shift operators. Any such kernel Φ has a canonical decomposition into a degenerate and a nondegenerate part. In case is commutative, Φ can be disintegrated with respect to some tight positive operator-valued measure defined on the characters of if and only if Φ is nondegenerate. It is proved that a representing measure of a positive...
We investigate the deformations of involution and multiplication in a unital C*-algebra when its norm is fixed. Our main result is to present all multiplications and involutions on a given C*-algebra 𝓐 under which 𝓐 is still a C*-algebra when we keep the norm unchanged. For each invertible element a ∈ 𝓐 we also introduce an involution and a multiplication making 𝓐 into a C*-algebra in which a becomes a positive element. Further, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the center of...