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Since B(p 0) is Dedekind complete, B(p 0) is an ideal in B(p 0) u and so 0<br />

P (p 0) ;1 P (f) 2 B(p 0). Hence 0 P p0(f) 2 B p0 A(p 0). This shows that<br />

P p0 is a well de ned <strong>positive</strong> linear mapping with its range contained in B p0.<br />

If f 2 B p0 then, by de nition, f = p 0g for some g 2 B. Hence<br />

P p0(f) =p 0P (p 0) ;1 P (p 0g) =p 0P (p 0) ;1 P (p 0)g<br />

= p 0p 0g = p 0g = f<br />

which shows that P p0 is a projection onto B p0. It is clear that P p0 is order<br />

continuous, so it remains to prove that P p0 is strictly <strong>positive</strong>. Suppose<br />

that 0 f 2 A(p 0) such that P p0(f) = 0. Since 0 P (p 0) ;1 P (f) 2<br />

B(p 0), it follows from Lemma 4.4 that P (p 0) ;1 P (f) = 0 and so p 0P (f) =<br />

P (p 0)P (p 0) ;1 P (f) =0. Since 0 P (f) np 0 for some n 2 N, this implies<br />

that P (f) = 0 and so f =0.<br />

In the above situation we will say that P p0 is the restriction <strong>of</strong> P to<br />

A(p 0) (or, the restriction to p 0). We endthis section with a technical result,<br />

which shows how representations <strong>of</strong> restrictions <strong>of</strong> a <strong>positive</strong> projection P can<br />

be glued together to obtain a representation <strong>of</strong> P (as de ned in De nition<br />

3.7). We assumethatA is a Dedekind complete f-algebra in which the unit<br />

element 1 is a strong order unit and that P : A ! A is a strictly <strong>positive</strong> order<br />

continuous projection onto the f-subalgebra B with 1 2 B. Suppose that<br />

(X ) is a representation space for B with representation homomorphism<br />

B : Mb (X ) ! B. If 0 < p 0 2 CA, then (X ) is also a representation<br />

space for B p0, the representation given by the homomorphism<br />

p0<br />

B : Mb (X ) ! B p0, (17)<br />

de ned by p0<br />

B (f) =p0 B (f) for all f 2 Mb (X ). In this situation we will<br />

p0 call B the induced representation <strong>of</strong> B p0.<br />

Lemma 4.15 Let B : Mb (X ) ! B be arepresentation <strong>of</strong> B. We assume<br />

furthermore that:<br />

(i). fpjg is an at most countable disjoint system in CA such that P j pj = 1<br />

(ii). For every j there exists a representation space (X Yj j) for P pj<br />

and A (pj) such that the corresponding representation<br />

j : Mb (X Yj j) ! A (pj)<br />

is compatible with the induced representation pj<br />

B <strong>of</strong> B pj.<br />

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