Quasi *-Algebras of Operators in Rigged Hilbert Spaces

Abstract

In this chapter, we will study families of operators acting on a rigged Hilbert space, with a particular interest in their partial algebraic structure. In Section 10.1 the notion of rigged Hilbert space D[t] ↪ H ↪ D × [t ×] is introduced and some examples are presented. In Section 10.2, we consider the space.L(D, D ×) of all continuous linear maps from D[t] into D × [t ×] and look for conditions under which (L(D, D ×), L +(D)) is a (topological) quasi *-algebra. Moreover the general problem of introducing in L(D, D ×) a partial multiplication is considered. In Section 10.3 representations of abstract quasi *-algebras into quasi*-algebras of operators are studied and the GNS-construction is revisited for this case. In Section 10.4, we consider the special case where the extreme spaces of the rigged Hilbert space are Hilbert spaces and we construct the maximal CQ*-algebra acting on a triplet of Hilbert spaces.