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= Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction
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The Gelfand–Naimark–Segal (GNS) construction is a fundamental technique in functional analysis and mathematical physics, particularly in the field of operator algebras and quantum mechanics. It provides a way to construct a representation of a *-algebra from a positive linear functional defined on that algebra.