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Direct integrals transport along bimeasurable base isomorphisms
Statement
Assume AC. Let and be -finite standard Borel measure spaces, let be a bimeasurable bijection with , and let be a measurable complex Hilbert field over with direct integral . Then is a measurable Hilbert field over with the pulled-back fundamental family, and pullback of sections is a unitary that intertwines multiplication by with multiplication by . A decomposable operator field over corresponds to the decomposable field over with the same essential norm and the same fibrewise adjoint and product identities.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, -finite standard Borel measure spaces , , a bimeasurable bijection with , and a measurable Hilbert field with countable fundamental family and direct integral .
The field datum means exactly: a separable Hilbert space for each , vectors spanning a dense subspace of , Borel Gram coefficients ; a section is measurable when all coefficients are Borel, and sections are identified when they agree off a Borel null set (Measurable Hilbert field from a countable fundamental family).
is the quotient of the square-integrable measurable sections by almost-everywhere agreement, with inner product , and it is a Hilbert space (Direct integral of a measurable Hilbert field, Direct integrals of measurable Hilbert fields are Hilbert spaces).
For a section, coefficient measurability is equivalent to measurability of all pairings with measurable sections; such sections are closed under measurable scalar combinations and pointwise norm limits, and is measurable (Measurable sections have measurable pointwise inner products).
Precomposition with the Borel maps and preserves Borel measurability (Composition with a Borel measurable outer map preserves measurability, Standard Borel spaces, Measurable spaces and measurable sets).
An operator field is weakly measurable when its fundamental matrix coefficients are Borel; it is essentially bounded when , and a bounded operator on is decomposable when it acts by such a field, (Measurable and decomposable operator fields).
Proof
Given: AC, the base spaces and the field of the statement, with fundamental family over .
Define in . The Gram coefficients are Borel by [F1] and [F4], and for each the span of equals the span of , which is dense in ; hence with this pulled-back family is a measurable Hilbert field with countable fundamental family over .
A section over has Borel coefficients if and only if the section over has Borel coefficients : one direction is [F4], and the converse applies [F4] to , which is bimeasurable; by [F3] the same equivalence holds for all pairings, and is measurable whenever is.
Change of variables: for every nonnegative Borel function on , , because is the pushforward; consequently for a measurable section one has , so is square-integrable exactly when is.
Define on the direct integral. It is well defined on classes: if outside a Borel -null set , then outside , and ; it is complex-linear because the fibre operations are pointwise and pullback is linear; and it preserves inner products, , by [step 3.1]. It is surjective: for a measurable square-integrable section over , the section is measurable over by [step 2.1] applied to and has and the same integral by [step 3.1]. Hence is a complex-linear surjective isometry between the two direct integrals, that is, a unitary.
A weakly measurable, essentially bounded operator field over pulls back to the operator field on the fibres : its fundamental matrix coefficients are , Borel by [F4], so the pulled field is weakly measurable, and has -measure , so the two operator-norm functions have the same essential supremum; moreover, for a square-integrable section over , the pulled section is the pullback of the square-integrable section , so the decomposable action is transported. Fibrewise adjoint and product identities are preserved because for each the fibre operator is itself, and .
Finally intertwines multiplication: for and a square-integrable section , pointwise. Together with [step 4.1] and [step 4.2] this proves that is a measurable field, that is a unitary intertwining the two multiplication algebras, and that decomposable fields transport with the same essential norm and fibrewise algebraic identities.
Depends on
- Measurable Hilbert field from a countable fundamental family
- Direct integral of a measurable Hilbert field
- Direct integrals of measurable Hilbert fields are Hilbert spaces
- Measurable sections have measurable pointwise inner products
- Measurable and decomposable operator fields
- Composition with a Borel measurable outer map preserves measurability
- Standard Borel spaces
- Measurable spaces and measurable sets
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- J. Dixmier, Von Neumann Algebras, Chapter II §1 (direct integrals and measurable fields) (standard reference, not scraped)
- G. Misra, E. K. Narayanan and C. Varughese, Mackey Imprimitivity and commuting tuples of homogeneous normal operators, arXiv:2402.15737 (standard reference, not scraped)