The purpose of this paper is
to generalize the classical “flow under a function” construction to non-abelian
W∗-algebras. That is, given an automorphism 𝜃 of a W∗-algebra N and a positive
self-adjoint operator ϕ affiliated to the centre of N we show how to construct a
continuous action α of the reals on a W∗-algebra M. The resulting covariant
system {M,α,R} is called the flow built on {N,𝜃,Z} under the function
ϕ.
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