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Contents<br />

Abstract<br />

Introduction<br />

ii<br />

iii<br />

1 The commutant of an abelian <strong>von</strong> <strong>Neumann</strong> algebra 1<br />

1.1 Maximal abelian <strong>algebras</strong> acting on separable spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />

1.2 The commutant of an abelian <strong>von</strong> <strong>Neumann</strong> algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

2 <strong>Disintegration</strong> <strong>theory</strong> 7<br />

2.1 <strong>Disintegration</strong> of Hilbert spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2.2 Decomposable operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.3 Decomposable representations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

2.4 Decomposable <strong>von</strong> <strong>Neumann</strong> <strong>algebras</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19<br />

2.5 Decompositions and the commutant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3 The central decomposition 29<br />

3.1 Decomposition relative to an abelian algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

3.2 Type of the components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

A Measure theoretic results 33<br />

A.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

A.2 Measure theoretic technicalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

A.3 Polish spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

A.4 Analytic sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

A.5 Measurable selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

Bibliography 43<br />

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