The first book devoted to the general theory of finite von Neumann algebras.

The first book devoted to the general theory of finite von Neumann algebras.

For an inclusion N [subset of or equal to] M of finite von Neumann algebras, we study the group of normalizers N_M(B) = {u: uBu^* = B} and the von Neumann algeb

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