Scalar-measure construction of a projection-valued measure
ID: scalar-measure-construction-of-a-projection-valued-measure
For a unital star-representation , the Riesz-Markov-Kakutani representation theorem gives regular measures representing . Define by . Positivity and make these positive contractions. The identities imply commutation with and ; hence . Thus each is an orthogonal projection. Scalar countable additivity and orthogonality give countable additivity in the strong operator topology, constructing the normalized regular projection-valued measure.
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